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The Mill on the Floss, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
The Mill on the Floss Vol 1 of 3 - Classic Reprint Author:George Eliot THE MILL ON THE ELOSS. CHAPTER L outside doelcote mill. A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace. On this mighty tide the black ships-laden with the fresh-scented fir-planks, with rounded sacks of oil-bearing seed,... more » or with the dark glitter of coal-are borne along to the town of St Ogg's, which shows its aged, fluted red roofs and the broad gables of its wharves between the low wooded hill and the river brink, tinging the water with a soft purple hue under the transient glance of this February sun. Far away on each hand stretch the rich pastures. vol. i. a
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CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME; BOOK FIRST; BOY AND GIRL; CHAP PAGE; I OUTSIDE DORLCOTE MILL 1; II MR TULLIVEB, OF DOBLCOTE MILL, DECLARES HIS; RESOLUTION ABOUT TOM 6; III MR RILEY GIVES HIS ADVICE CONCERNING A SCHOOL; FOR TOM 17; IV TOM IS EXPECTED 42; V TOM COMES HOME 52; VI THE AUNTS AND UNCLES ARE COMING 71; VII ENTER THE AUNTS AND UNCLES 93; Vin MR TULLIVER SHOWS HIS WEAKER SIDE 136; IX TO GARUM FIRS 155; X MAGGIE BEHAVES WORSE THAN SHE EXPECTED 181; XI MAGGIE TRIES TO RUN AWAY FROM HER SHADOW 193; XII MR AND MRS GLEGG AT HOME 215; XIII MR TULLIVER FURTHER ENTANGLES THE SKEIN OF LIFE 239; vi; contents; book second SCHOOL-TIME; CHAP PAGE; I TOM'S " FIRST HALF" 247; II THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS 285; III THE NEW SCHOOLFELLOW " 299; IV "THE YOUNG IDEA" 311; V MAGGIE'S SECOND VISIT 331; VL A LOVE SCENE 340; VII THE GOLDEN GATES ARE PASSED 349
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