the Family cil

        It    eleven oclock t m t ts and uncles came to ation. ted in tulliver,    it    occasion, like a funeral, unbagged tassels and unpiains, adjusting t tops and legs of tables,     accuse of insuffit brig ing -    Mrs Deane appeared punctually in t o it and t driving it, raits io some of    Oggs. Mr Deane ulliver , and in Mrs Deanes e o e a subordinate position as a mere supplement to ticles of t years: a cerly intercourse bet Susan ting `like t, and ttle of true Dodson spirit surviving except in    miged t a distance are naturally less faulty tely under our o seems superfluous, tle to do o inquire furthem `blameless.

        Mrs Deao arrive, and ulliver came doo tle distorted nearly as it ears, except in moments    s ting it o be quite calm under present circumstances.

        `O sister, ered. ` trouble, O dear!

        Mrs Deane ing tero    spoken very properly.

        `Yes, sister, sely, `t knoo-day    its rigo be prepared for all troubles sent, to remember as it is    a cause. Im very sorry for you as a sister, and if tor orders jelly for Mr tulliver, I    me kno    is but rigtendance while hes ill.

        `tulliver, ratly,    ers t talk o jelly yet. ter a moments pause, s jelly-glasses upstairs... . I s jelly into em no more.

        ated as stered t    ted s. Mr and Mrs Glegg    immediately follo.

        Mrs Pullet entered g, as a pendious mode, at all times, of expressing icular case before her.

        Mrs Glegg    front, and garments ion from ratume selected illing perfect y into Bessy and her children.

        `Mrs G.,    you e o take table seat     it to her.

        `You see Ive seated myself ur yourself, if you like.

        `ell, said Mr Glegg, seating airs?

        `Dr turnbull t ter tulliver; `ook more notice, and spoke to me - but om yet - looks at tra tom and tor says    knoom because tle. Eh dear, eh dear!

        `I doubt its ter got on    Pullet, turning round from adjusting    ts mucs up again, and if    like be ce lost t t a Bato dra , Bessy.

        `Sister Pullet, said Mrs Glegg, severely, `if I uand rigoget advise and sult about o be done in t to talk o people as dont belong to us. Mr Carr ed h us, as Ive ever heared.

        `Sister Glegg, said Mrs Pullet in a pleading tone, draated manner, `if youve got anytful to say oMr Carr, I do beg of you, as you    say it to me. I knoo t degree as you could wo rooms off.

        `Sop disgust, `you do talk o peoples plaints till its quite u. But I say again, as I said before, I didnt e aalk about acquaintance,    e togeto    to save a sister and    act    t isnt to be expected as I shing.

        `ell, Jane, said Mrs Pullet, `I dont see as youve been so very forrard at doing. So far as I kno time as s been knoerday and looked at all Bessys linen and told ted table clot speak fairer; for as for tea-pot as s    to go out o t stands to sense I t do ea-pots, not if it    a straig - but tted damask I was allays fond on.

        `I ea-pot and c castors    be put up for sale, said poor Mrs tulliver, beseegs, t t.

        `But t t be o buy em in, t o be bid for as her.

        `And it isnt to be looked for, said uncle Pullet, ed independence of idea, `as your own family s.

        `O dear, O dear, said Mrs tulliver, `to t    I , and t broke, for Ive ulips on t go and look at em for pleasure. You    like your co go for an old song and be broke to pieces, t no colour in it, Jane - its all ed, and didnt cost so mucors - sister Deane, I t t youd like to ors, for Ive ty.

        `ell, Ive no obje to buy some of t tily. `e    do ra things in our house.

        `Best ty y from    drives me past patieo alking o best t and t bring your mind to your circumstances, Bessy, and not be t    to cover you, and a stool to sit on. You must remember, if you get em, itll be because your friends    em for you, for youre depe upo t got a penny i to call s for your    your state is, and    to look to for everything - and be humble in your mind.

        Mrs Glegg paused, for speaking urally exing. Mrs tulliver, aler Jane, ender years, said pleadingly,

        `Im sure, sister, Ive never asked anybody to do anyt ud be a pleasure to em to nt go and be spoiled i strange o buy t    o t o    Ive said noted my sisters to pay t my ers unknoer off t    been as    money and never asked for it again.

        `e, e, said Mr Glegg, kindly, `do us make too dark. s done t be undone. e s among us to buy    for you - t be useful, plain ts unnecessary. A table and a cc ead o t a deal o useless t us, only because    to spend.

        `Mr Glegg, said Mrs G., `if youll be kind enougo let me speak, istead of taking t o my mouto say, Bessy, as its fialking for you to say as youve never asked us to buy anyt me tell you, you ougo o be purvided for, if your o    go to t. And you ougo kno, and keep it in mind, and ask us o do ead o saying, and making a boast, as youve never asked us for anything.

        `You talked o t Mr tullivers done for em, said Uncle Pullet,    to do somet em mo to be made to pay it back.

        `Yes, to be sure, said Mrs Deane, `Ive been t Mr and Mrs Moss arent o meet us? It is but righeir share.

        `O dear! said Mrs tulliver, `I niver sent em    Mr tulliver, and t Basset, to market. But I niver gave em a t. I , t Moss.

        ` your c, at tion of Maggie. `t ts and uo say: - and Maggie - o t Pullet nor of aunt Mosses. I may go off sudden elling.

        `If Id . Its time to look to, and its rigalk to em, a em knoion i life, and o, and make em feel as t to suffer for ts.

        `ell, Ill go acer, said Mrs tulliver, resignedly; se crus of treasures in tore-room han blank despair.

        S upstairs to fet and Maggie, ore-room dgested a o    to ao go dohemselves.

        ts and uncles appeared to er entered - botance; for tom ical sagacity ivity by trong stimulus of tions erday, urning over in    to propose to one of s or uncles,    by no means amicably toing t once, as rated p just endurable in small drauger brief rest, at t strange dreamy o be a mere margin to traerrupted tion. t ceremony, till uncle Pullet observed, as tom approached him--

        `ell, young sir, alking as e rarely noer all your sk.

        `Ay, ay, said uncle Glegg, ion o be kind, ` look to see thers sunk so much money in now.

        ` t excellent -

        om, to let us see t us see in    it. But I began tle, you see: I could live on a basin e and a crust o bread and c I doubt     was for me.

        `But    do it, interposed aunt Glegg, eically, ` to sider o trusten to o keep    to bear ts o , and bring o fare o o s and uncles for    be turned out into treets and go to t er, too, tinued Mrs Glegg, looking severely at Maggie,    Deane, drao    s make up o be s to    on    remember t. S do t resped love s, as o leave to their nevvies and nieces.

        tom ill standing before table in tre of tened colour in    o say, in a respectful tone, sometated, wered.

        Poor Mrs tulliver ray on , a spe tea-cup and saucer, tors, and sugar tongs.

        `See er, s Mrs Deane, as s tray on table, `I t, per tea-pot again - its a good erer: it makes beautiful tea, and tand and everyt use it for every day, or else lay it by for Lucy    at t sears ing, `my tea-pot as I bougo ts being scratc before travellers and folks - and my letters on it - see o see em.

        `A Pullet, ss very bad - to tials going about everyer, Bessy! But ea-pot - s got t straig too.

        `As to disgrace o t t be ea-pots. to    o beggary. to be sold up. e t ry from kno.

        Maggie arted up from t to    tom sao prevent , Maggie, atively, pus ation of self-and and practical judgment in a lad of fifteen t    and respectful marembling in    o the quick.

        `t, raig Mrs Glegg, `if you ts a disgrace to t    be better to prevent it altoget Pullet, inued, looking at tter, `to me and Maggie,    it be better to give it no o be sold up for, and save my moting ure?

        ts, for every one, including Maggie, onis toms sudden manliness of tone. Uncle Glegg    to speak.

        `Ay, ay, young man - e , you must remember - your aunts get five per t on t, if t - you    t o t.

        `I could    every year, said tom, promptly. `Id do anyto save my moting hings.

        `ell done! said uncle Glegg, admiringly. om out, rating on ticability of    unate result of irritating his wife.

        `Yes, Mr Glegg! said t lady, s pleasant o be giving my money aeo leave at my o, and not yours, Mr Glegg, and Ive saved it and added to it myself and o put out s to go and be sunk in oture, and ence em in luxury aravagance as ting, and Im to alter my    and been careful, and t o to go and be squandered on teful. Sister Pullet, you may do as you like, and you may let your    t isnt my sperrit.

        `La, Jane, . `Im sure youll o be cupped. Im sorry for Bessy and s dreadful, for I sleep very bad    its no use for me to t meet me half way.

        `o be sidered, said Mr Glegg. `Its no use to pay off t and save ture, ock, for Ive made t out from Lao keep tead o spending it on furniture as    nor drink. You    knoas reasonable.

        `towards ly.

        toms tenance ion, and    ermined not to give er ary deligoms speeco ate of trembling indignation. anding close by toms side and o    spoken: Maggie suddenly started up and stood in front of the eyes of a young lioness.

        ` out, `talking, and interfering    mean to do anyto er - if youve no feeling for rouble, and    part , to save    e to find fault ter trouble. tom and I dont ever    to     !    you.

        Maggie,    aunts and uncles in tood still,    to a all sequences.

        Mrs tulliver ous in tbreak: s see er it. tom    o talk so. ts    s. At lengtion suc preseself as more expedient than any answer.

        `You    seen trouble    c; `ss dreadful. I mig alone paying for her schooling, for shes worse nor ever.

        `Its no more t Ive allays said, follo Im not. Ive said over and ain - years ago Ive said - "Mark my    o good: t a bit of our family in ; And as for    . Id my reasons o.

        `e, e, said Mr Glegg, `lets e no more time in talking - lets go to business. tom no the pen and ink...

        all dark figure he window.

        `ulliver. `t    out to open the door, Maggie eagerly following her.

        `ts fortunate, said Mrs Glegg. `So t o to be bougs but rigs her.

        Mrs Moss oo mucation to resist Mrs tullivers movement as so tomatically,    refleg t it ake    painful moment of arrival. tall, rast to ters as sered in    looking as if tily    entire absence of self-sciousness    trouble. Maggie o o notio one else except to and took by the hand.

        `O my dear c out, `youve no call to t to you, for Im oake all and give nother?

        `Mr turnbull t better, said Maggie. `Sit do Gritty. Dont fret.

        `O my s    i to lead o t still not seeming to notice t. `eve ts it, and you all    it, poor t    be sold up to pay it, and t of em, and ttle un of all t speak plain. And I feel as if I    Im sure Id no t as my brother...

        terrupted by a rising sob.

        `tulliver, ation at    in the dark.

        ` madness, to be sure! said Mrs Glegg. `A man    to lend     security, Ill be bound, if truth was known.

        Mrs Gleggs voice ed Mrs Mosss attention, and, looking up, she said,

        `Yes, ty: my e for it. ere not t sort o people, o paying back times got a bit better.

        `ell, but noly, ` your    ud be a little fortin, like, for t tullivers being made a bankrupt. Your    stock: it is but rig seems to me - not but w Im sorry for you, Mrs Moss.

        `O sir, you dont kno o stock, and , and    but o do    ud be any good... but ttle uns...

        `Dont cry so, aunt - dont fret, w hold of Mrs Mosss hand.

        `Did Mr tulliver, let you    once? said Mrs tulliver, still lost in tion of t her knowledge.

        `No, at to restrain ears. `t er my bad illness, four years ago, as everyt e made t    cumber all my life.

        `Yes, Mrs Moss, said Mrs Glegg, y for my sister.

        `I set off in t as soon as ever I     Mrs tulliver. `I said a o let me kno isnt as Im t ourselves and not my brot    it. And my o do t t Mr Glegg, `and    s all my brot to trust to. eve beeo trouble, and dont look for muly t o my poor cwo.

        `o be t on, Mrs Moss, said Mr Glegg, `and its rigo ullivers made a bankrupt, and    a note-of-o pay it: t.

        `O dear, O dear! said Mrs tulliver, tcy, and not of Mrs Mosss    in it. Poor Mrs Moss ened in trembling submission,    tom to see if anding trouble, and g about poor aunt Moss. tom ful able-cloth.

        `And if    made bankrupt, tinued Mr Glegg, `as I said before, ttle fortin for    kno    goes    my opinion is, looking at it one ll be rigo raise t it to pay it. You    truth.

        `Uncle, said tom, looking up suddenly from ative vieable-clot t o pay t    my fato pay it, ?

        Mr Glegg looked surprised for a moment or tom; but troyed te you kno look for te.    makes you t ud be against his will?

        `om, c, but trying to speak firmly in spite of a boyisremor, `I remember quite    to sr Stelling, my fato me one nigting by togethe room...

        tom ated a little, and t on,

        `o me about Maggie, and to my sister, t my    Moss money, but I sressing o pay it: Id rat: my ind being t. And no able to speak for    like anyto be done trary to w o me.

        `ell, but to enter into toms    once sual abroying securities or alienating anytant enougo make an appreciable differen a mans property, `e, you knoo guard against w may ...

        `Mr Glegg, interrupted    youre saying. Youre putting yourself very forrard in ot say it .

        `ts suc, o express , `making ae: I s table on you for it.

        `ell but, said Mrs tulliver, `if tes    money,    ao meddle    Moss, tom, if you ts well.

        Mrs tulliver    studied tion of exing er inal ideas on t.

        `Poo uand t safe for Mr and Mrs Moss, but destroying te.

        `to do it, uncle, said tom, early. `If my fat get     I could    me to remember    y.

        Even Mrs Glegg could not oms    tainly speaking in ion of money. Maggie ed aking toms her a choked voice,

        `Youll never be ted for your fat, ty. ell do as    an    father.

        `ell, said Mr Glegg, ing after toms ors, supposing your fat - Ive been t, for Ive been a creditor myself, and seen no end o g - for if    to give your aunt t into ts te o be t muc to be sidered, young man, Mr Glegg added, looking admonis tom, `aking one mans dinner ao make anot. You dont uand t, I doubt?

        `Yes, I do, said tom, decidedly. `I knoo one man Ive no give it to anot if my fato give my aunt t,    to do it.

        `ell done, young man! I didnt t pere. Let us go and see if    in t.

        `Its in my fat us go too, aunt Gritty, whispered Maggie.
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