The Works of George Eliot: Mill on the Floss

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W. Blackwood, 1878
 

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Pagina 55 - Tom's superiority, for he was the only person who called her knowledge "stuff/' and did not feel surprised at her cleverness. Tom, indeed, was of opinion that Maggie was a silly little thing; all girls were silly, - they...
Pagina 66 - Maggie's power of sacrifice did not extend so far; indeed, I fear she cared less that Tom should enjoy the utmost possible amount of puff than that he should be pleased with her for giving him the best bit. So she shut her eyes quite close, till Tom told her to " say which," and then she said," Left hand." " You 've got it," said Tom, in rather a bitter tone. " What! the bit with the jam run out ?" "No; here, take it," said Tom, firmly, handing decidedly the best piece to Maggie.
Pagina 50 - Oh, please forgive me, Tom; my heart will break," said Maggie, shaking with sobs, clinging to Tom's arm, and laying her wet cheek on his shoulder. Tom shook her off, and stopped again, saying in a peremptory tone, "Now, Maggie, you just listen. Aren't I a good brother to you?" "Ye-ye-es," sobbed Maggie, her chin rising and falling convulsively. " Didn't I think about your fish-line all this quarter, and mean to buy it, and saved my money o' purpose, and wouldn't go halves in the toffee, and Spouncer'...
Pagina 4 - How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank and listen to its low, placid voice, as to the voice of one who is deaf and loving. I remember those large dipping willows. I remember the stone bridge.
Pagina 96 - Maggie, you'll have to go down to dinner directly," said Tom. " Oh my ! " "Don't laugh at me, Tom," said Maggie, in a passionate tone, with an outburst of angry tears, stamping, and giving him a push. "Now, then, spitfire!" said Tom. "What did you cut it off for, then ? I shall go down : I can smell the dinner going in.
Pagina 3 - A WIDE plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.
Pagina 5 - See how they stretch their shoulders up the slope towards the bridge, with all the more energy because they are so near home ! Look at their grand shaggy feet that seem to grasp the firm earth, at the patient strength of their necks bowed under the heavy collar, at the mighty muscles of their struggling haunches ! I should like well to hear them neigh over their hardly-earned feed of corn, and see them, with their moist necks freed from the harness, dipping their eager nostrils into the muddy pond....
Pagina 173 - What! You don't like the smell of it, my dear," said the young woman, observing that Maggie did not even take a spoonful of the stew. "Try a bit — come." "No, thank you," said Maggie, summoning all her force for a desperate effort and trying to smile in a friendly way. "I haven't time, I think — it seems getting darker. I think I must go home now and come again another day, and then I can bring you a basket with some jam-tarts and things.
Pagina 170 - Gypsies didn't seem to mind her at all, and she felt quite weak among them. But the springing tears were checked by new terror when two men came up whose approach had been the cause of the sudden excitement. The elder of the two carried a bag, which he flung down, addressing the women in a loud and scolding tone, which they answered by a shower of treble sauciness; while a black cur ran barking up to Maggie and threw her into a tremor that only found a new cause in the curses with which the younger...
Pagina 54 - Never mind, my wench." It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love— this hunger of the heart — as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world. But she knew Tom's step, and her heart began to beat violently with the sudden shock of hope. He only stood still at the top of the stairs and said, ,

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