tion, impartiality — without any care to assure themselves whether they have the insight that comes from a hardly earned estimate of temptation,Andrew Hammond Tröjor, or from a life vivid and intense enough to have created a wide fellow-feeling with all that is human.
Chapter III: Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us
When Maggie was at home again,Nick Leddy Tröjor, her mother brought her news of an unexpected line of conduct in aunt Glegg. As long as Maggie had not been heard of, Mrs. Glegg had half closed her shutters and drawn down her blinds. She felt assured that Maggie was drowned; that was far more probable than that her niece and legatee should have done anything to wound the family honor in the tenderest point. When at last she learned from Tom that Maggie had come home, and gathered from him what was her explanation of her absence, she burst forth in severe reproof of Tom for admitting the worst of his sister until he was compelled. If you were not to stand by your “kin” as long as there was a shred of honor attributable to them, pray what were you to stand by? Lightly to admit conduct in one of your own family that would force you to alter your will,Bernie Parent Tröjor, had never been the way of the Dodsons; and though Mrs. Glegg had always augured ill of Maggie’s future at a time when other people were perhaps less clear-sighted,Travis Konecny Tröjor, yet fair play was a jewel, and it was not for her own friends to help to rob the girl of her fair fame,Ales Hemsky Tröjor, and to cast her out from family shelter to the scorn of the outer world,Jamie Benn Tröjor, until she had become unequivocally a family disgrace. The circumstances were unprecedented in Mrs. Glegg’s experience; nothing of that kind had happened among the Dodsons before; but it was a case in which her hereditary rectitude and personal strength of character found a common channel along with her fundamental ideas of clanship, as they did in her lifelong regard to equity in money matters. She quarrelled with Mr. Glegg, whose kindness, flowing entirely into compassion for Lucy,Dame Moncler Aminta, made him as hard in his judgment of Maggie as Mr. Deane himself was; and fuming against her sister Tulliver because she did not at once come to her for advice and help, shut herself up in her own room with Baxter’s “Saints’ Rest” from morning till night,rescue jacka, denying herself to all visitors, till Mr. Glegg brought from Mr. Deane the news of Stephen’s letter. Then Mrs. Glegg felt that she had adequate fighting-ground; then she laid aside Baxter,New Tröjor, and was ready to meet all comers. While Mrs. Pullet could do nothing but shake her head and cry,Curtis Lazar Tröjor, and wish that cousin Abbot had died,Dennis Rasmussen Tröjor, or any number of funerals had happened rather than this, which had never happened before, so that there was no knowing how to act,Thomas Vanek Tröjor, and Mrs. Pullet could never enter St. Ogg’s again, because “acquaintances” knew of it all, Mrs. Glegg only hoped that Mrs. Wooll, or any one else, would come to her with their false tales about her own niece, and she would know what to say to that ill-advised person!
Again she had a scene of remonstrance with Tom, all the more severe in pr
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