Mr Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side
`SUPPOSE sister Glegg should call her money in - it ud be very awkward for you to have to raise five hundred pounds now, said Mrs Tulliver to her husband that evening, as she took a plaintive review of the day. Mrs Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a facility of saying things which drove him in the opposite dire to the one she desired. Some minds are wonderful for keeping their bloom in this way, as a patriarchal gold-fish apparently retains to the last its youthful illusion that it swim in a straight line beyond the encirg glass. Mrs Tulliver was an amiable fish of this kind, and after running her head against the same resisting medium for thirteen years would go at it again to-day with undulled alacrity.
This observation of hers tended directly to vince Mr Tulliver that it would not be at all awkward for him to raise five hundred pounds……（内容加载失败！）
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