ou, Tom. Write.”
“What am I to write?” said Tom, with gloomy submission.
“Write as your father, Edward Tulliver, took service under John Wakem, the man as had helped to ruin him, because I’d promised my wife to make her what amends I could for her trouble, and because I wanted to die in th’ old place where I was born and my father was born. Put that i’ the right words — you know how — Miehet Cg Chateau Parka and then write, as I don’t forgive Wakem for all that; and for all I’ll serve him honest, I wish evil may befall him. Write that.”
There was a dead silence as Tom’s pen moved along the paper; Mrs. Tulliver looked scared, and Maggie trembled like a leaf.
“Now let me hear what you’ve wrote,” said Mr. Tulliver, Tom read aloud slowly.
“Now write — write as you’ll remember what Wakem’s done to your father, and you’ll make him and his feel it, if ever the Woolrich Parka day comes. And sign your name Thomas Tulliver.”
“Oh no, father, dear father!” said Maggie, almost choked with fear. “You shouldn’t make Tom write that.”
“Be quiet, Maggie!” said Tom. “I shall write it.”
Book IV: The Valley of Humiliation Chapter I: A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet
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