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首页The Mill on the FlossCHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 4

        tom Is Expected

        It    to Maggie t s alloo go    to fet    too , Mrs tulliver said, for a little girl to go out in    bo. Maggie took te vierongly, and it    sequence of t ant black aggie suddenly ruser standing near, - in tive determination t t day. `Maggie, Maggie, exclaimed Mrs tulliver, sitting stout and    is to bee of you, if youre so naugell your aunt Glegg and your aunt Pullet    your    pinafore,    from top to bottom. Folks ull ts a judgment on me as Ive got suc wicked.

        Before tratic t ran ucer from errier escaped from tic e retreat on a    day, oo cold: ted out all alked aloud to ten floors and ten sers festooned    a Fetisurunk of a large    of eyes above t of c irely defaced by a long career of vicarious suffering. to ted as many crises in Maggies nine years of eartruggle; t luxury of vengeao ure of Jael destroying Sisera in t nail roke tis occasion represented aunt Glegg. But immediately after if s be so o fancy t t    to fort it, and make believe to poultice it    Glegg iable o beg    ernately grinding aing t t c made ting t ic, sobbing all t expelled every ot . As at last tting quieter and ttice across ten siso t, te and broerrier urned back, trotting about and sniffing vaguely as if    ible: Maggie tossed airs, seized     putting it on, peeped and t ser    in toms ing o say, if ted, .

        `umble do, said Luke, tall broad-sy, black-eyed and black-haired, subdued by a general mealiness, like an auricula.

        Maggie paused in aggering a little, `O no, it doesnt make me giddy. Luke, may I go into th you?

        Maggie loved to linger in t spaces of ten came out o a soft    made    e din, ting motion of t stones giving    trollable force, te poening all surfaces and making ts look like faery lace- pure st of to make Maggie feel t ttle    from side everyday life. t of speculation ions outside t case t be a painful difficulty in tercourse: a fat and floury spider, aced to take ed    suffer a little at a cousins table    be mutually s eac t of t opmost story - t and slide doinually. S of taking tion as so anding, as her did.

        Per it necessary to recover ion    occasion, for, as s sliding on t t s mill-society,

        `I t the Bible, did you, Luke?

        `Nay, Miss - an not muc, said Luke,    frankness. `Im no reader, I arnt.

        `But if I lent you one of my books, Luke? Ive not got any very pretty books t o read; but t;Pugs tour of Europe" - t ell you all about t sorts of people in t uand tures d smoking, you knoting on a barrel.

        `Nay, Miss, In no opinion o Dutc muc them.

        `But tures, Luke -    our felloures.

        `Not mucurs, I ter, as o say, says     brinin, Im a Dutc c door. Nay, nay, I arnt goin to bot Dutc lookin i books for em.

        `O edly decided vie Dutimated Nature" better - ts not Dutc eleps, and kangaroos, and t cat, and tting on its tail - I fet its ries full of tures, instead of    you like to kno them, Luke?

        `Nay, Miss, In got to keep t o t do s o t    to get tly lies, I ts printed i ted ss are, as.

        `om, Luke, said Maggie, urn tion agreeably, `toms not fond of reading. I love tom so dearly, Luke - better togetell    kno I toms clever, for all    like books: iful w-pens.

        `A s are all dead.

        `Dead! screamed Maggie, jumping up from    on t, tted doe, t tom spent all o buy?

        `As dead as moles, said Luke, fetcakable corpses o table wall.

        `O dear Luke, said Maggie, in a piteous tone, old me to take care ofem, and I fot.    shall I do?

        `ell, you see, Miss, t far tool o see to em. I reaster tom told o feed em, but tin on ur as iver e about t    ud gripe him.

        `O Luke, tom told me to be sure and remember ts every day - but    e into my    s - and so am I sorry. O w shall I do?

        `Dont you fret, Miss, said Luke, soots - t o natur y doesnt like em. s ears to lie back, an its not trairio make em iff dogs. Master tom ull knoter nor buy sucime. Dont you fret, Miss. ill you e along e.

        tation offered an agreeable distra to Maggies grief, and ears gradually subsided as srotted along by Lukes side to    cottage, s apple arees, and y of a lean-to pig-sty, close by tance: sed ality in bread and treacle and possessed various . Maggie actually fot t sood on a co look at a remarkable series of pictures representing tume of Sir C t, as miged from ive moral cer, , like t aplisaste and strengto dispe ts    on o feel more ty for ticularly ure ree toned and ly of some fn breed, seemed to insult s over t of husks.

        `Im very glad ook    you, Luke? s d again.

        `E s, lets feyt he would for him.

        t    to Maggie, and s t ory of t bee a blank.
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