Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you c …… [ 展开全部 ]an read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I was going to tell you what Mr. and Mrs. Tulliver were talking about as they sat by the bright fire in the left-hand parlor on that very afternoon I have been dreaming of. CHAPTER II. MR. TULLITEE...(展开全部)
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I was going to tell you what Mr. and Mrs. Tulliver were talking about as they sat by the bright fire in the left-hand parlor on that very afternoon I have been dreaming of. CHAPTER II. MR. TULLITEE, OF DOELCOTE MILL, DECLARES I1IS RESOLUTION ABOUT TOM. "what I want, you know," said Mr.Tulliver?"what I want is to give Tom a good eddication?an eddication as'll be a bread to him. That was what I was thinking of when I gave notice for him to leave th' academy at Ladyday. I mean to put him to a downright good school at Midsummer. The two years at th' academy 'ud ha' done well enough, if I'd meant to make a miller and farmer of him, for he's had a fine sight more schoolin' nor Z"ever got: all the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th' other. But I should like Tom to be a bit of a scholard, so as he might be up to the tricks o' these fellows as talk fine and write with a flourish. It 'ud be a help to me wi' these lawsuits, and arbitrations, and things. I wouldn't make a downright lawyer o' the lad?I should be sorry for him to be a raskill?but a sort o' engineer, or a surveyor, or an auctioneer and vallyer, like Riley, or one o' them smartish businesses as are all profits and no outlay, only for a big watch-chain and a high stool. They're pretty nigh all one, and they're not far off being even wi' the law, I believe; for Riley looks Lawyer Wakem i' the face as hard as one cat looks another. lie's none frightened at him." Mr.Tulliver was speaking to his wife, a blonde comely woman, in a fan-shaped cap (I am afraid to think how long it is since fan-shaped caps were worn?they must be so near coming in again. At that time, when Mrs. Tulliver was nearly forty, they were new at St. Ogg's, and considered sweet things). " Well, Mr. Tu... [ 收起 ]
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