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Chapter VI: The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming
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It was Easter week, and Mrs. Tulliver’s cheesecakes were more exquisitely1 light than usual. “A puff2 o’ wind ‘ud make ’em blow about like feathers,” Kezia the housemaid said, feeling proud to live under a mistress who could make such pastry3; so that no season or circumstances could have been more propitious4 for a family party, even if it had not been advisable to consult sister Glegg and sister Pullet about Tom’s going to school.
“I’d as lief not invite sister Deane this time,” said Mrs. Tulliver, “for she’s as jealous and having as can be, and’s allays5 trying to make the worst o’ my poor children to their aunts and uncles.”
“Yes, yes,” said Mr. Tulliver, “ask her to come. I never hardly get a bit o’ talk with Deane now; we haven’t had him this six months. What’s it matter what she says? My children need be beholding6 to nobody.”
“That’s what you allays say, Mr. Tulliver; but I’m sure there’s nobody o’ your side, neither aunt nor uncle, to leave ’em so much as a five-pound note for a leggicy. And there’s sister Glegg, and sister Pullet too, saving money unknown, for they put by all their own interest and butter-money too; their husbands buy ’em everything.” Mrs. Tulliver was a mild woman, but even a sheep will face about a little when she has lambs.
“Tchuh!” said Mr. Tulliver. “It takes a big loaf when there’s many to breakfast. What signifies your sisters’ bits o’ money when they’ve got half-a-dozen nevvies and nieces to divide it among? And your sister Deane won’t get ’em to leave all to one, I reckon, and make the country cry shame on ’em when they are dead?”
“I don’t know what she won’t get ’em to do,” said Mrs. Tulliver, “for my children are so awk’ard wi’ their aunts and uncles. Maggie’s ten times naughtier when they come than she is other days, and Tom doesn’t like ’em, bless him! — though it’s more nat’ral in a boy than a gell. And there’s Lucy Dean’s such a good child — you may set her on a stool, and there she’llsit for an hour together, and never offer to get off. I can’t help loving the child as if she was my own; and I’m sure she’s more like my child than sister Deane’s, for she’d allays a very poor color for one of our family, sister Deane had.”
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adv.精致地;强烈地;剧烈地;异常地 | |
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reconciliation
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diabolical
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