Mr Tulliver Further Entahe Skein of Life
OWING to this new adjustment leggs thoughts, Mrs Pullet fouask of mediation the day surprisingly easy. Mrs Glegg, indeed, checked her rather sharply for thinking it would be necessary to tell her elder sister what was the right mode of behaviour in family matters. Mrs Pullets argument that it would look ill in the neighbourhood if people should have it in their power to say that there was a quarrel in the family, articularly offensive. If the family name never suffered except through Mrs Glegg, Mrs Pullet might lay her head on her pillow in perfect fidence. `Its not to be expected, I suppose, observed Mrs Glegg, by way of winding up the subject, `as I shall go to the Mill again before Bessy es to see me, or as I shall go and fall down o my ko Mr Tulliver and ask his pardon for showing him favours; but I shall bear no malice, and when Mr Tulliver speaks civil to me, Ill speak civil to him. Nobody has any call to tell me whats being.
Finding it unnecessary to plead for the Tullivers, it was natural that aunt Pullet should relax a little in her ay for them, and recur to the annoyance she had suffered yesterday from the offspring of that apparently ill-fated house. Mrs Glegg heard a circumstantial narrative, to which Mr Pullets remarkable memory furnished some items; and while aunt Pullet pitied poor Bessys bad luck with her children, and expressed a half-formed project of paying fgies beio a distant b school, which would not prevent her being so brown, but might tend to subdue some other vices in her, aunt Glegg blamed Bessy for her weakness, and appealed to all witnesses who should be living wheulliver children had turned out ill, that she, Mrs Glegg, had always said how it would be from the very first, that it was wonderful to herself how all her words came true.
`Then I may call and tell Bessy youll bear no malice, and everything be as it was before? Mrs Pullet said, just before parting.
`Yes, you may, Sophy, said Mrs Glegg, `you may tell Mr Tulliver and Bessy too, as Iam not going to behave ill, because folks behave ill to me: I know its my place, as the eldest, to set an example in every respect, and I do it. Nobody say different of me, if theyll keep to the truth.
Mrs Glegg being in this state of satisfa in her own lofty magnanimity, I leave you to judge what effect roduced on her by the reception of a short letter from Mr Tulliver that very evening after Mrs Pullets departure, - inf her that she trouble her mind about her five hundred pounds, for it should be paid back to her in the course of the month at farthest, together with the i due thereon until the time of payment. And furthermore, that Mr Tulliver had no wish to behave uncivilly tlegg, and she was wele to his house whenever she liked to e, but he desired no favours from her, either for himself or his children.
It oor Mrs Tulliver who had hastehis catastrophe, ehrough that irrepressible hopefulness of hers which led her to expect that similar causes may at any time produce differes. It had very often occurred in her experiehat Mr Tulliver had done something because other people had said he was not able to do it, or had pitied him for his supposed inability, or in any other iqued his pride: still, she thought today if she told him when he came in to tea that sister Pullet was goo try and make everything up with sister Glegg. So that he think about paying in the money, it would give a cheerf