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        tion of Maggies career as an admired member of society in St Oggs ainly ty, clad in a -floating kind,    ores of aunt Pullets inong tional    ificial airs, until iful and simple:    ty    to call simplicity as o ed to belong to pretentious vulgarity; but tall beio t, it seemed neoday t Miss Guest oo    Miss Laura spoke and moved tinually o effect. All    St Oggs and its neig ao see ts open roof and carved oaken rafters and great oaken folding-doors, and lig on t place ripes painted on tly, long-snouted cer, t in t one end, surmounted an oaken orcra , alls for refress    fentlemen disposed to loiter ao exc of vie, t fitness of t building for an admirable modern purpose t made cy truly elegant, ay up to t, riking t ered t exc arcra one oriel ed glass     Lucy all for tain large plain articles    at tall to icles rats and ote products of anding. But it soon appeared t tlemens dressing-gos of sution and inquiry aed so troublesome a curiosity as to tive merits togetermination to test trying on, as to make    a very spicuous oies of to sell, and did not    dressing-go oy and bad taste of tailor could furnis is possible t tiotice of various kinds ulliver    and unmistakable lig du many minds t. Not t anger on at of spurned beauty    dial breasts of cable ladies, but rat take a deeper tinge from trast, and also, t today Maggies spicuous position for t time made evideaiics    to ory bearing. tullivers direct gaze, and sometyle of y, o Lucy tic claims on tion of Mr Step.

        As for dear little Lucy e benevolent triump tionate projects so give    spirits today, and s not pleasure in ttractiveness. It is true, sepmost attention on ticles o cajole tomers into t effemiilities. o lay aside    and    Fez of    by superficial observers to be interpreted less as a pliment to Lucy t is a great b, young torry observed, `but t Oggs - orry had red hair.)

        And Stepely notil Lucy said, in ratone,

        `See, noting     o s - do buy them.

        `Oep be intended for imaginative persons ern reason is my forte, you k Po buy t he e?

        `o e.    t of ted. But nohing of Maggie.

        `No, no - see - s a er: t ing up.

        Lucys eyes tur too see    t intervieime oure of feelings, but so notice t akem aougo e oo talk about terested in purc Maggie, and not calling on o speak muc sremulous.

        `icularly amiable to your cousin, said Stepoo Lucy. `Is it pure magnanimity? You talked of a family quarrel.

        `O, t e tle indiscreet in isfa, and speaking    Step appear to notice toanding aloof until akem,    ransas.

        `My son came    o some ot of t all table gallao me. I .

        Surned    speaking, and urned aepo    Stepill ting money, and avoided looking up. S ed o Lucy today, and    e near    salutation and botient    e of former failures in resolution. And during t feo failures, looking to ts t must soon e to separate t iail.

        Stepep by step as if il    round tall and ing ill sle voice saying, `Arent you very tired? Do let me bring you somet or jelly - maynt I?

        ted tones sal vibration of a harp close by her.

        `O no, tly, and only ant.

        `You look so pale, Steped, in a more eing tone. `Im sure youre exed. I must disobey you, and bring something.

        `No, indeed I couldnt take it.

        `Are you angry     me.

        `Pray, go a ely form o te er of tra, ered treaty tc t implied, but Stepurned a once, and, follo tle more t angle of t. Airely ne occurred to Stepself    o ion, it viioairs to t room, wo P down be his hand on his shoulder.

        `Are you studying for a portrait, Pc oriel    makes a capital bit from tain just marking it off.

        `I udying expression, said Ply.

        `, Miss tullivers? Its ratoday, I ter.    me to o get , but I ural antipatween us, I suppose - I o please her.

        ` a e you are! said Philip, flushing angrily.

        `, because experience must old me t Im universally pleasing? I admit t turbing force here.

        `I am going, said Ply.

        `So am I - to get a breats oppressive. I t and service long enough.

        tairs toget speaking. Purer door into t Step call in    on along to one of t ted to too dasable, tride a care at a     Pyt t issues from a moral fli so close a resemblao vice, t tin escapes all outs, founded on a mere parison of as. It is clear to you, I    Step a e - capable of deliberate doubleness for a selfis uatioematicealment of it mig of Pion.

        Mean all cold and trembling,    painful sensation in tely repressed tears. as o be alrife? S voices around o t easy, babbling current. It    t t Dr Kenn, ely e into taking a general vieime, and ruck iful face. Sting quite still, for tream of ers    te ernoon: tlemen all , pained expression, finisrast beted. urally draention as a neriking o croduced to    call on business at Mr Deanes, but o oo speak. S a ctive relief from tion,        plain, middle-aged face, rating kindness in it, seeming to tell of a rand, but y tlers still tossed by t on Maggie at t momeions, but are yet in time    merely plative, s of natural priested to be tumblers and victims of self-despair: most of us at some moment in our young lives,    natural order in any sort of icals or unicals, but o scramble upo all ties of eeirely    such aid, as Maggie did.

        `You find your office ratiguing one, I fear, Miss tulliver? said Dr Kenn.

        `It is, rat being aced to simper amiable denials of obvious facts.

        `But I    tell Mrs Kenn t you o you.

        `O I lemen came very fast to buy tcoats but I t knoo say about them.

        Dr Kenn smiled. `I o    parisulliver - am I? You    a distance from us o.

        `I eaotuation of the same kind very soon.

        `Ahis neighbourhood, I believe.

        `O I must go, said Maggie, early, looking at Dr Kenn old ory in t s of implicit revelatioraly - on a miles journey, pering by ty of a rao keep alive therhood.

        Dr Kenns ear aook in all t th meaning.

        `I uand,    rigo go. But t    prevent our meeting again, I     prevent my knoter, if I    be of any service to you.

        out urned away.

        `Srouble or ot , . `Poor c turn out to be one of

        `ture pitcoo oo low.

        t in tiful eyes.

        It may be surprising t Maggie, among    absent norug to more elated on a day e of so many looks and smiles, toget satisfactory sciousness    tall beauty, cro of     tey. If t state of mind could ed, o ep at ,    ion near and distant, ies of culture at    troy - passion, and affe, and long deep memories of early discipline and effort, of early claims on y; and tream of vanity    along and mingled imperceptibly     s    force today, us and inward impulses broug week.

        P spoken to    tacles bet - but old everyto Lucy,    Maggie, being informed t give    t to eag feelings oo great fgie to say mucriump revelation, and Lucy could    stle more t t of oms getting triving. tails of preparation for to usurp Lucys attention for t fes t o rouse deeper feelings. Po t Maggie e versation    to figtle    interference.

        But oget home, Lucy said,

        `You must give up going to stay    Moss ter tomorroe a o ell    it off at my request and Ill send t. S be displeased - youll y of time to go by and by. And I dont    you to go out of t now.

        `Yes, indeed I must go, dear - I t put it off. I    leave aunt Gritty out for ttle time, for Im going ao a ion on ty fifth of June.

        `Maggie! said Lucy, almost onis.

        `I didnt tell you, dear, said Maggie, making a great effort to and    some time ago, I e to our old governess, Miss Firniss, to ask o let me knouation t I could fill, and tter from elli I could take to t during trial of a situation eace yesterday to accept the offer.

        Lucy felt so    t for some moments so speak.

        `Maggie, s last, `o me - not to tell me - to take sucep - and noed a little, and t everyto be so    is t up - let me e. to keep you and P.

        `Yes, said Maggie, faintly. `toms feeling.    give    c least not for a long en him.

        `But I alk to    ten alk to    Poms al to me - I dont tinate.

        `But I must go, said Maggie, in a distressed voice. `I must leave some time to pass. Dont press me to stay, dear Lucy.

        Lucy    for tes, looking aing. At lengt down by h anxious seriousness, said--

        `Maggie, is it t you dont love Po marry ell me - trust me.

        Maggie igtle    inct.

        `Yes, Lucy - I    and    lot for me - to make . No one else could be quite    I t divide myself from my brot go a. Pray dont speak to me again about it.

        Lucy obeyed in pain and    word she said was,

        `ell, dear Maggie, at least you o t Park omorroo pay tiful visits. Ay and tea.
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