known objects, even a mere window fastening or a particular door-latch, have sounds which are a sort of recognized voice to us — a voice that will thrill and awaken, when it has been used to touch deep-lying fibres. In the same moment, when all the eyes in the room were turned upon him, he started up and looked at the chest, the parchments in Mr. Glegg’s hand, and Tom Vans Sneakers Men holding the tin box, with a glance of perfect consciousness and recognition.
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“No, no, friend Tulliver,” said Mr. Glegg, in a soothing tone. “Nobody’s getting hold of anything as yet. We only came to look and see what was in the chest. You’ve been ill, you know, and we’ve had to look after things a bit. But let’s hope you’ll soon be well enough to attend to everything yourself.”
Mr. Tulliver looked around him meditatively, at Menn Adidas Sweatshirts Tom, at Mr. Glegg, and at Maggie; then suddenly appearing aware that some one was seated by his side at the head of the bed he turned sharply round and saw his sister.
“Eh, Gritty!” he said, in the half-sad, affectionate tone in which he had been wont to speak to her. “What! you’re there, are you? How could you manage to leave the children?”
“Oh, brother!” said good Menn Mrs. Moss, too impulsive to be prudent, “I’m thankful I’m come now to see you yourself again; I thought you’d never know us any more.”
“What! have I had a stroke?” said Mr. Tulliver, anxiously, looking at Mr. Glegg.
“A fall from your horse — shook you a bit — that’s all, I think,” said Mr. Glegg. “But you’ll soon get over it, let’s hope.”
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“Yes, father,” she said, kissing him with a full heart. She felt as if her father were come back to her from the dead, and her yearning to show him how she had always loved him could be fulfilled.
“Where’s your mother?” he said, so preoccupied that he received the kiss as passively as some quiet animal might have received it.
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“Ay, ay; poor Bessy!” and his eyes turned toward Tom as Maggie left the room.
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