A Family Party

        MAGGIE left    Gritty at t to Garum Firs to pay    to aunt Pullet acc to agreement. In time, very ued to be a family party at Garum to discuss and celebrate a es of tullivers, s like t limb of an eclipse, and cause to obscured virtues to s is pleasant to kno a nery just e into office are not tion and full-bloable families t tives being creditable meet y nition, ets, suggests ty t    any notice find ourselves in full millennium, rices e and    no longer seet t iions. Lucy came so early as to art even of aunt Glegg; for to urbed talk    t seemed - did it not? said Lucy, tiest air of unes (poor creatures!) o make poor dear aunt tulliver, and cousin tom, and y Maggie too, if s obstinately bent on trary, as o be after all troubles. to t ter tom le, t unfortunate yousome, d    St Oggs in a dangerous state, so t akem    ter on t o    un it did seem as if tune    any otime, in order t cousin tom mig re so very    tulliver must certainly go to tom: t o Lu tter of ; but to ty being in ting forts about here!

        On t point Lucy s, and airs into ted    tacti he enemy.

        `Aunt Pullet, sing ing t ladys floating cap-string, `I    you to make up your mind om to Glegg will follow.

        `t s,    got to follo ell you. Saste, not if sags and foxes, all able-linen is - not a spot nor a diamont among em. But its poor    to , Bessy, Mrs Pullet tinued, s er tulliver, ` flax iver he Lord knows where yours is gone.

        `Id no cer, said poor Mrs tulliver, aced to sider    of an accused person. `Im sure it    bleacry.

        `take a peppermint, Mrs tulliver, said uncle Pullet, feeling t , which he was reending by example.

        `O but, aunt Pullet, said Lucy, `youve so muciful linen. And suppose you ers! t , whey were married.

        `ell, I dont say as I    do it, said Mrs Pullet, `for nooms so lucky, its nable-clot at your sale, Bessy, it    good natur o me to buy em, for t ever since. But Im not going to give Maggie any more o my Indy muslin and to go into service again, ay and keep me pany, and do my seed at hers.

        `Going into service ed to itself tion of tea to t menial dition, noances offered s, o be a sore point ives, besides Lucy. Maggie ie of dubious promise,    undesirable niece; but noal and useful. t    and uncle Gleggs presence, over tea and muffins.

        `uredly patting Maggie on t let us aking a place again, Maggie.    s at t t sort of article? e, now?

        `Mr Glegg, said    seness in y, s. `Youll excuse me, but youre far too ligs resped duty to s and t of o    my niece from fixing about going a sulting us - not ss, if Im to use suc was never heared in my family.

        ` did t to see em, t? t us s enougly,    tion of sness, took a little more sugar.

        `Mr Glegg, said Mrs G., `if yoing to be undelicate, let me know.

        `La, Jane, your , `let    rengtilt got    laugo try.

        `Ill trouble you for to interrupt your joking. ts ot see tting a slig sister, as is t on s visits all time sotling to go a my kno on purpose for o make em up for me, - and me as have divided my money so equal--

        `Sister, Mrs tulliver broke in, anxiously, `Im sure Maggie    o going a staying at your    as its my    quite trairy. Im sure Im i. Ive said over and ain, "My dear, youve no call to go a; But ten days or a fo go: say at your    as ep in when I , and so will Lucy.

        `Bessy, said Mrs Glegg, `if youd exercise a little more t, you mig o unpin a bed, and go to all t trouble no at time, er of an    t at nig a good aunt so close to o e and sit h. I know I should, when I was her age.

        `La, Jane, said Mrs Pullet, `it ud do your beds good to o sleep i Striped Room smells dreadful mouldy, and t I srue in.

        `O, tom! exclaimed Lucy, clapping old    going to keep his promise.

        Maggie jumped up to kiss tom as ered, rong feeling, at t meeting si of returning to to    o to ill a perpetual yearning in    s root deeper t    Moss?

        `e, e, sir, said Mr Glegg, putting out    seems. Youre e into your luck a good deal earlier t I    stop he hill.

        `But I s    to, said Mrs Glegg. `If    o take after, efulness in our family - nor dying    wills--

        `No, nor sudde Pullet. `Allays tor called in. But tom    from t. And I dont knoo do, sister Glegg, but I mean to give able clot sizes but one, besides ss. I dont say    I so-morro, youll bear it in mind - t on t -caps ies - not t is. Youll make a mistake and I so kno. Youve a memory for my pills and draug of you - but youre lost among t of t o Mrs Pullet.

        `You carry it too far, Sop log in and out, said Mrs Glegg, in a tone of some disgust at t lock up; but I do    o make a present of to my nevvie: Ive got clottened, better    and t.

        tom t evaded any promise to meditate nigues; and Mr Glegg effected a diversion for    Mr Deanes iions ing steam.

        Lucy ed vieom to e on Sindbad. It appeared, ime to go    t o ride tom o drive    sit by yourself, aunty, said t triving young lady, `because I must sit by tom; Ive a great deal to say to him.

        In tionate ay fgie, Lucy could not persuade o defer a versation about om,    of    t bee pliant and flexible. ure supplied o toms, and so notice t ce ed on tion as a great stroke of policy, urn toms    to, prove t to receive Maggie er-i for dear tom,    smile o turn pletely round, say te of    Maggie sable despatg could be easier.

        But to minds strongly marked by tive aive qualities t create severity - strengtitude of purpose, narroion and intellect, great porol and a disposition to exert trol over otural food of tendencies e of t plex, fragmentary, doubt-provoking kno a prejudice be bequeated by    in t may e, t a ation: it is someto assert strongly and bravely, someto fill up taneous ideas, someto impose on oty of sci is at once a staff and a baton. Every prejudice t . ood uprigom tullivers mind icism of s did not prevent ing     a man of lax principle and lax life, and it ing-point for all ted feelings of family and personal pride. Oto produs bitter repugo Po Maggies union anding Lucys po a cold refusal ever to san suc of course Maggie could do as sermination to be indepe. For toms part, y to o sent to aion he akems.

        t Lucy ed by ion o fill toms mind ation t Maggies perverse resolve to go into a situation again, ly metamorpself, as    to do, into somet entirely different - a marriage h Philip akem.
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