to Garum Firs

        roubles of Maggies future ing only tterness of t. C t is sootlived sorro o look at, and t of ternoon visit to Garum Firs    Oggs erms of tion in ut - tut - tut! in a tone of mingled disgust and pity, ion    test expression of public opinion. Mr Rappit, ted al locks tending ed pyramid of flame on a moal urn, seemed to    t moment t formidable of emporaries, into    at St Oggs sering t of her life.

        Moreover, tion for a visit being alo ullivers room ready an    t of t clot not be deferred till t moment, as imes trings le or no    at quite easily produo so t tulliver ing e ective apparatus of broure in danger of flies; Maggie ing    s if possible s of tuckers, ing, `Dont, Maggie, my dear - dont look so ugly! and toms cicularly brilliant as a relief to    blue suit, tle ed    of io oilette - ransferred all tents of s to tually in wear.

        As for Lucy, s as pretty a as serday: no acts ever o able in t sy at Maggie, pouting and ing tucker. Maggie ainly orn it off, if s been    about    ting and ting ao build till dinner, as a suitable amusement for boys and girls in t    build perfect pyramids of    Maggies     Maggie made, and tom    no girls could ever make anyt it    Lucy proved    building: sly and moved so gently t tom desded to admire o teaplate t ill-temper, if ucker    made om    insiderately laugold upid.

        `Dont laug me, tom! s out, angrily. `Im not a stupid. I kno many t.

        `O, I daresay, Miss Spitfire! Id never be suc. Lucy doesnt do so. I like Lucy better ter.

        `ts very o ing up ting toms , but tantial eviden turned    said notruck    o strike a girl, and tom tulliver e determined hing cowardly.

        Maggie stood in dismay and terror    up from ttered ruins of ely, like a kitten pausing from its lapping.

        `O tom, said Maggie, at last, going oo knock it do.

        tom took no notice of    took, instead, t of    and s t t first, but presently inct aim of ting a superannuated blue-bottle y in t ture, ru of this weak individual.

        to Maggie, and toms persistent ess to o look at t birds     g to s Maggie, and peeled a c    oo Maggie. Lucy    you like one? But tom was deaf.

        Still t of tunely spreading ail on tackyard    as to divert temporarily from personal grievances. And tiful sig Garum Firs. All tams, speckled and topknotted - Friesland ur flety-spotted feater pigeons and a tame magpie; nay, a goat, and a es all about, and glittering iful patterns - note on at Garum Firs; and tom t t toads to terised uncle Pullets possessions as a gentleman farmer. toads urally leaner. As for t    less remarkable: it re, and ttlemeurrets, and tering ucco.

        Uncle Pullet ed party approace to unbar and unc door, kept alified dition from fear of tramps o knouffed birds in to plate rus a Pullet too appeared at ter op t let em e up teps: Sallys bringing t ao rub their shoes.

        Mrs Pullets front-door mats eo o do its dirty om rebelled particularly against t of an indignity to    it as t to a visit at aunt Pullets,    o    too y clusion t a visit to Garum Firs must    treat to a youleman fond of animals - fond, t is, of to them.

        t disagreeable o    ing of tairs,    t of teps migimes as a trial by ordeal from    spotless virtue could    tairs    of bitter remonstranrs Gleggs part, but Mrs tulliver ventured on no ent, only to    was a mercy, whe landing.

        `Mrs Gray    , Bessy, said Mrs Pullet, in a patie as Mrs tulliver adjusted her cap.

        `er? said Mrs tulliver, erest. `And ?

        `Its apt to make a mess aking em out and putting em in again, said Mrs Pullet, dra tly, `but it ud be a pity for you to go a seeing it. t may happen.

        Mrs Pullet s t serious sideration,    a particular key.

        `Iam afraid itll be troublesome to you - getting it out, sister, said Mrs tulliver, `but I so see    of a    shes made you.

        Mrs Pullet rose     at all. Su could only oo superficial acquaintance s of t o be    was a door-key.

        `You must e o t room, said Mrs Pullet.

        `May too, sister? inquired Mrs tulliver, her eager.

        `ell, said aunt Pullet, reflectively, `itll pero e - toug, if we leave em behind.

        So t in procession along t and slippery corridor, dimly ligop of tter: it e solemn. Aunt Pullet paused and unlocked a doering feebly, s looked like tute in    sood s legs up rapidly.

        Aunt Pullet ter and teness y of t of rose-leaves t issued from taking out s after s of silver-paper quite pleasant to assist at, t of t at last iclimax to Maggie, ernatural. But feo Mrs tulliver. S in silence for some moments and tically, `ell, sister, Ill never speak against the full s again!

        It    cession, and Mrs Pullet felt it: s someto it.

        `Youd like to see it on, sister? ster a bit further.

        `ell, if you dont mind taking off your cap, sister, said Mrs tulliver.

        Mrs Pullet took off ting promontory of curls ure and judicious imes, and plag t on urned slo Mrs tulliver mig of view.

        Ive sometimes t too muc side, sister: .

        Mrs tulliver looked early at ted indicated and turned o one side. `ell, I ts best as it is: if you meddled , sister, you mig.

        `ts true, said aunt Pullet, taking off t and looking at it platively.

        ` s bo, sister? said Mrs tulliver, y of getting a ation of t home.

        Mrs Pullet scre: o    bo Garum C t best be w would.

        So adjust trimmings in preparation for returning it to its pla ts seemed to aken a melan, for she shook her head.

        `A last, `I may er; who knows?

        `Dont talk o t, sister, ansulliver. `I his summer.

        `A ter I in bo. Cousin Abbott may go, and    think o wearing crape less nor half a year for him.

        `t ulliver, entering to ty of an inopportune decease. `t two summers alike.

        `As t, returning t to t up. Sained a silence cerised by il to cry, ser, if you s bo again till Im dead and gone, youll remember I s you this day.

        Mrs tulliver felt t s to be affected, but sears, stout and    cry so mucer Pullet did, and e    funerals.    t tears into ra of tentively, felt t tery about s bo o uand; indignantly scious, all t sood t, as aken into fidence.

        do observed,     - t om terval ill longer, for ed in irksome straint on tly opposite , wwinkling grey eyes and occasionally addressed him as `Young sir.

        `ell, young sir,    sding question ;    ogeto be seated tête-a-tête , t tom could not even look at ts on ts:    ers. Not t tom y: indeed,        to be a gentleman farmer, because    like to be suc - a molly-coddle, in fact. A boys sering reverence: and o one remely queer. tion I    suggest to you is, t t totle. It is only ive    a gun in your    to be a truly admirable and enviable cer. At least, I am quite sure of tom tullivers ses on ts. Iender years, e and making minatestures iculate burr, inteo strike terror into tonising, t desire for mastery over ticluding cockcers, e of so mues of our rao never rode anytaller t predatory of men, sidering firearms dangerous as apt to go off ticular desire. So t tom     strong reasons alk    as a ninpoop, taking care at time to observe t he was a very `rich fellow.

        ting circumstan a tête-a-tête        a variety of lozenges and peppermint drops about    a loss for versation, ual solace of this kind.

        `Do you like peppermints, young sir? required only a tacit ansation of ticle iion.

        ttle girls suggested to uncle Pullet t cakes, of oder lod key for e eating on    days: but t tempting delicacy bet Pullet desired to abstain from eating it till tray and tes came, since    mind t mucty, s it y to eat it, but tom, ity o in    tes, and c furtively. As fgie, being fasated, as usual, by a print of Ulysses and Nausicaa, ty Scripture tly let fall , crus be - a source of so mucation to aunt Pullet and scious disgraaggie t so despair of o-day, till after some refle, it occurred to    Lucy ure on asking for a tune. So so Lucy, and Lucy,    up quietly to une, uncle?

        Lucy t it ional talent in uncle Pullet t tiful tunes, and i ligy of     to begin ood    up, and kne o play befet Mr Pullets cer    of t entire nullity tributed to it.

        But uncle Pullet ed to ex , never depreciated it by a too ready sent. `ell see about it, aining from any sign of pliaill a suitable number of minutes     social occasions, and in this way fenced himself in from much painful fusion and perplexing freedom of will.

        Peren Maggies enjoyment    time se fot t s tom ime `ty imes forted    Maggie could look ratty noe of    om, put om, isnt it pretty?

        Lest you s sing insensibility in tom t    any neoo    tell you t    so make .    reme milksop not to say angrily, `Look tment ioned, as it ion of Maggies behaviour.

        ` you sit still, Maggie? her said peevishly.

        `Little gells mustnt e to see me if t    Pullet.

        `tle miss, said uncle Pullet.

        Pgie sat do of he seven small demons all in again.

        Mrs tulliver, foreseeing not misbeook an early opportunity of suggesting, t noed after t go and play out of doors, and aunt Pullet gave permission, only enjoining t to go off ted to see try fed, to viean tri er t frigs feathers drop off.

        Mrs tullivers ts emporarily diverted from ternal cares, but no t o perspective and t of terdays aies recurred.

        `It er Gleggs leaving t er.

        `A Pullet, `ting for    speak of it out o t    to Dr turnbull - but its my belief Jane lives too loo Pullet, often and often, and .

        ` Monday , beginning to nurse er it    ion took an iing turn.

        `Very like I did, said Mrs Pullet, `for you remember    a    inued, looking patically at er. `I so roke, for    to take my doctors stuff - and Im taking ts now.

        `t;pills as before" every ot, and t eleven and four, and ture "uatioermined by a lozenge on ongue.

        `A ud be better for sister Glegg, if so tor sometimes, instead o curkey rter ulliver,    of medie    tlegg.

        `Its dreadful to t Pullet, raising ting t s flying i t are tors for, if    to call em in? And o pay for a doctor - it isnt respectable, as Ive told Jane many a time. Im asano.

        `ell, o be as, `for Doctor turnbull    got sut as you ittons gone.

        `Pullet keeps all my ptles - did you kno. ` s nore-room s, so cry, `its    sizes. t in my room - youll remember t, sister - but to s isnt the bills.

        `Dont talk o yoing, sister, said Mrs tulliver; `I so staer Glegg if you    you    get o make it up ulliver, for sister Deanes never o my side, and if ss not to be looked for as s an indepe fortin.

        `ell, yood-naturedly ready to use ers at as ty to our family as ake after s and uncles, and ts your bad luck, and Im sorry for you, Bessy; for you e sister, and terns.

        `I knoullivers y and says odd tulliver, ear from t Im sure o objey making to the house.

        `I dont    to make t of you, Bessy, said Mrs Pullet, passionately, `for I doubt youll rouble enoug t - and your    t poor sister and o la    as Id    said out o the family.

        tion urally far from rs tulliver. ion    easily acted on, but s     appeared t ot it hard.

        `Im sure, sister, I t    icipated misfortunes migributive, to take a pre duct. `trives more for    sc time taken do toget elder-floiful! I allays offer it along er Glegg ravagant, and as for liking to idy and not go a frig t me in respect o backbiting and making misc o s o my neigo die tomorrow I s be ashamed. A woman    do no more nor she .

        `But its all o no use, you kno, ically on er, `if your    but    your furniture, its a fort to t it    go all over try. It ud be a sad pity for our family. Mrs Pullet shook her head slowly.

        `But er? said Mrs tulliver. `Mr tullivers not a man to be dictated to - not if I o go to t by     pretend to kno putting out money and all t. I could never see into mens business as sister Glegg does.

        `ell, youre like me in t, Bessy, said Mrs Pullet. `And I t ud be a deal more being o Jane if s pier-glass rubbed oftener - ts on it last ead o dictating to folks as elling em o do    Jane and me rairy: sriped ts. You like a spot too, Bessy: .

        Mrs Pullet, affected by t reminisce, looked at er patically.

        `Yes, Sopulliver, `I remember our e spot bot a bit in a bed-quilt no go and see sister Glegg and persuade o make it up ulliver, I sake it very kind of you. You er to me.

        `But t tulliver to go and make it up    be above t, said Mrs Pullet, y did not blind o principles: s fet o people of indepe fortune.

        `Its no use talking o t, said poor Mrs tulliver, almost peeviso go doo tulliver, hed never humble himself.

        `ell, you t expect me to persuade Jao beg pardon, said Mrs Pullet. `empers beyond everyts    doesnt carry    to a madhouse.

        `Im not tulliver. `But if s take no notid not call s not so mucer to ask of anotime ud mend tulliver ud fet all about it, and theyd be friends again.

        Mrs tulliver you perceive    aion to pay in t least, sucermination exceeded her powers of belief.

        `ell, Bessy, said Mrs Pullet, mournfully, `I dont    to o ruin. I    be beurn, if it is to be done. And I dont like it said among acquaintance as    quarrels in tell Ja: and I dont mind driving to Jaomorro doesnt mind.    do you say, Mr Pullet?

        `Ive no objes, said Mr Pullet, eake, so t Mr tulliver did not apply to     ments, and did not see y for ur into land.

        After a little furto    be better for Mrs tulliver to apany t to sister Glegg, Mrs Pullet,    t it ea-time, turo reace damask napkin    instead of tea-tray, Sally introduced an object so startling t bot and Mrs tulliver gave a scream, causing uncle Pullet to sed.
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