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首页The Mill on the FlossCHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 10

        the Spell Seems Broken

        te of rooms opening into eac Park    s and floeen couples tendant parents and guardians. t forion of to    one end ion of maturity,    tty sitting- room ory attac as an occasional cool retreat. Lucy, ime and ty slimness set off by an abundant dress of s ties, including no member of any aristocracy    of St Oggs, and stretco treme limits of ercial and professional gentility. Maggie at first refused to dance, saying t sten all t    is ill dang . But at lengt in    orry o try and persuade    s danyt a try dance, but o    for t y, meaning only to be plimentary ervals t it    bore t s z - o z    at last it urn of t of vanity and t of merriment in it, and Maggie quite fot roublous life in a c of t ic ro baious etiquette. S quite cably toorry, as    fire of young joy in t if it    find t breato fan it; and s bit of black lace, seemed like tting of a jewel.

        Step yet asked o dance -    yet paid y. Since yesterday, t in of    like a blot: ttac bet tta epold o resist ttra t inually tening to overpo a certain savage resistance, and at anot a so trusion of P made it a o rusoo do t aloof from    o Lucy. But noo kick young torry out of take ed to end t    get rid of y t oo so possess . But even noing in ting still to t, ther.

        Step    automatic ies of politeness in terval, until ed alone again, at toz, and e of all ts t    . ill brig to joy and tenderness: - even t seem bitter - so    as a part of life, for life at t seemed a keen vibrating sciousness poised above t nig expand urainedly in t,    ting ts of t and ture.

        `to z again, said Stepo speak to    gland tone of subdued tenderness o tones bring try o a room t is ifling ation.

        `to z again: it is rato look on and t a little?

        ook    o tting-room, reion of visitors    to look at t no visitors . to tory.

        `range and urees and flos among to an enced land, and hey were all made of jewels.

        S tier of geraniums as sep     a supreme poet blend ligo one, calling darkness mute, and lig? Sely po of Step made Maggies face turn to and look up it - slo tness. And teadily on,    feeling t t feeling anyt t long grave mutual gaze o all deep    t t and e fession more intense in its rapture.

        But tory, and o pause and turn. t brougo Maggie: surned ao smell tepood motionless and still pale.

        `O may I get t effort to say somete trievable fession. `I te o gatill t left.

        Stepe: ting a senteoget tle upo tracted    felt ty of a ions of tender lie in tly lessening curves doo te    s ti, almost imperceptible nicks in tness. A ouc sculptor t    an image of it for till as it clasps lovingly time- ints of life.

        A mad impulse seized on Steped to, clasping t.

        But t moment Maggie snat    ion.

        ` rigo insult me?

        Sed from o ting and trembling.

        A    reaco Lucy, to Po ter soul. t momentary ten    - a leprosy: Step more lighan he did of Lucy.

        As for Step tory, dizzy    of passions - love, rage and fused despair: despair at    of self-mastery, and despair t he had offended Maggie.

        t feeling surmounted every oto be by reat fiveness    ive for    beeed more tes, ter rage .

        `Leave me to myself, if you please, suous iness, `and for ture avoid me.

        Stepurned a ty of going bato to be scious of t. t so s a time t z    ended.

        Maggie, too,    long before sered. All ture ung into activity: teful    s aations of t monto an unvisited co allure y ered till ed brig    defied anyto agitate o dance again, but salked quite readily and calmly     nig, almost exulting in t    reaco gentle, unsuspicious sister.

        t m Maggie did not set off to Basset quite so soon as sed. o apany    be despatcily by Mrs tulliver. So Maggie,    ing, equipped for ts for t Basset, and    some alarm lest Lucy s Stepo    o be Stephen.

        But presently tor came out into ted     Stephen.

        `e    just catcips of tc, said Philip.

        taken eac Maggie    e revival of tionate smile t enced.

        `Yes, sen look at t on tems again. But I     oo ther.

        `I inually, said P t to live upon.

        A keen remembrand keen pity impelled Maggie to put en walked hand in hand!

        `I remember all ts - just icular tiful stories t I had never heard of before.

        `You    you, Maggie? said Pting timid and tremulous. `thers home again.

        `Yes - but I s be t    told you, perhaps?

        `ture o t again, Maggie? - t book is quite closed?

        t en looked up at reating ruggling ray of    th her large sincere gaze.

        `t book never    ies of t. But tie to my brest. I    do not will divide me always from him.

        `Is t t    for ever, Maggie? said Pe determination to e answer.

        `t. At t moment s as if ted cup o tionary excitement t gave ery    subsided, and s ture h a sense of calm choice.

        t    looking at eaces: in Maggies mind t ses of love and parting    tual moment, and s Phe Red Deeps.

        P t    to    ans as a rock-pool.    tisfied    of an omnisce t ect tlest fold of t.
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