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Tom was still standing before the table in the centre of the group. There was a heightened color in his face, and he was very far from looking humbled, but he was preparing to say, in a respectful tone, something he had previously meditated, when the door opened and his mother re-entered.
Poor Mrs. Tulliver had in her hands a small tray, on which she had placed her silver teapot, a specimen teacup and saucer, the castors, and sugar-tongs.
“See here, sister,” she said, looking at Mrs. Deane, as she set the tray on the table, “I thought, perhaps, if you looked at the teapot again — it’s a good while since you saw it — you might like the pattern better; it makes beautiful tea,Dame Moncler Adour, and there’s a stand and everything; you might use it for every day, or else lay it by for Lucy when she goes to housekeeping. I should be so loath for ’em to buy it at the Golden Lion,Diego Costa Drakt,” said the poor woman, her heart swelling, and the tears coming — “my teapot as I bought when I was married, and to think of its being scratched,Bailey Button Czyścibut 5991, and set before the travellers and folks, and my letters on it — see here, E. D. — and everybody to see ’em.”
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Maggie had started up from the sofa at the allusion to her father, but Tom saw her action and flushed face in time to prevent her from speaking. “Be quiet, Maggie,” he said authoritatively,Air Jordan Retro 3 Męskie, pushing her aside. It was a remarkable manifestation of self-command and practical judgment in a lad of fifteen, that when his aunt Glegg ceased, he began to speak in a quiet and respectful manner, though with a good deal of trembling in his voice; for his mother’s words had cut him to the quick.
“Then, aunt,” he said, looking straight at Mrs. Glegg, “if you think it’s a disgrace to the
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