ther,” he said tenderly. “I shall soon be able to get money; I’ll get a situation of some sort.”
“Bless you, my boy!” said Mrs. Tulliver, a little soothed. Then, looking round sadly, “But I shouldn’t ha’ minded so much if we could ha’ kept the things wi’ my name on ’em.”
Maggie had witnessed this scene with gathering anger. The implied reproaches against her father — her father, who was lying there in a sort of living death — neutralized all her pity for griefs about tablecloths and china; and her anger on her father’s account was Philipp Grubauer Jersey heightened by some egoistic resentment at Tom’s silent concurrence with her mother in shutting her out from the common calamity. She had become almost Hurtowy Polo indifferent to her mother’s habitual depreciation of Sami Lepisto Jersey her, Marcus Kruger Jersey but she was keenly alive to any sanction of it, however passive, that she might suspect Zach Parise Jersey in Tom. Poor Maggie was by no means made up of unalloyed devotedness, but put forth large claims for herself where she loved strongly. She burst out at last in an agitated, almost Casual Noira Škornji 5678 violent tone: “Mother, how can you talk NHL Mens Carolina Hurricanes Top Shelf Pullover Hoodie - Scarlet so; as if you cared only for things with your name on, and not for what has my father’s name too; and to care about anything but dear father himself! — when he’s lying there, and may never speak to us again. Tom, you ought to say so too; you Casual Short Tassel 3046 ought not to let any one find fault with my father.”
Maggie, almost choked with mingled grief and anger, left the room, and took her old place on UGG Classic Short Sparkles her father’s bed. Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed all her life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.
Her father had always defended and excused her, and her loving remembrance of his tenderness was a force within her that would enable her to do or bear anything for his sake.
Tom was a little shocked at Maggie’s outburst — telling him as well as his mother what it was right to do! She ought to have learned better than have those hectoring, assuming manners, by this time. But he presently went into his father’s room, and the sight there touched him in a way that effaced the slighter impressions of the previous hour. When Maggie saw how he was moved, she went to him and put her arm round his Derek Stepan Jersey neck as he sat by the bed, and the two children forgot everything else in the sense that they had one father and one sorrow.
Chapter III: The Family Council
It was at eleven o’clock the next morning that the aunts and uncles came to hold their consultation. The fire was lighted in the large parlor, and poor Mrs. Tulliver, with a confused impression that it Sebastian Aho Jersey was a great occasion, like a funeral, unbagged the bell-rope tassels, and unpinned the curtains, adjusting Duvetica Untuvatakki them in proper folds, looking round and shaking her head sadly at the polished tops and legs of the tables, which sister Pullet herself could not accuse of insufficient brightness.
Mr. Deane was not coming, he was away on business; but Mrs. Deane appeared punctually ilinks:
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