The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

for Riley looks Lawyer Wakem i' the face as hard as one cat looks another. He's none frightened at him."

May be Mr .Tullivar is frightened at the educated fellows. And thats one reason why he wants Tom to be one

It's an uncommon puzzling thing to know what school to pick."

"It's no mischief much while she's a little un; but an over-'cute woman's no better nor a long-tailed sheep,–she'll fetch none the bigger price for that."

"where's the use o' my telling you to keep away from the water? You'll tumble in and be drownded some day, an' then you'll be sorry you didn't do as mother told you."

"A woman's no business wi' being so clever; it'll turn to trouble, I doubt.

"Oh, I'll tell you what that means. It's a dreadful picture, isn't it? But I can't help looking at it. That old woman in the water's a witch,–they've put her in to find out whether she's a witch or no; and if she swims she's a witch, and if she's drowned–and killed, you know–she's innocent, and not a witch, but only a poor silly old woman.

one cannot be good-natured all round.

"But they're our fellow-creatures, Luke; we ought to know about our fellow-creatures."

Her curiosity

That's what brings folks to the gallows,–knowin' everything but what they'n got to get their bread by.

When he grows up I shall keep his house, and we shall always live together.

Even in childhood she does nlt have independent dreams

"No, Tom," said Maggie, imploringly, laying hold of the arm that was held stiffly in the pocket. "I'm not cross, Tom; it was only because I can't bear guessing. Please be good to

I've got a great deal more money than you, because I'm a boy. I always have half-sovereigns and sovereigns for my Christmas boxes because I shall be a man, and you only have five-shilling pieces, because you're only a girl."

the need of being loved–the strongest need in poor Maggie's nature–began

"Goodness heart; she's got drownded!" exclaimed Mrs. Tulliver,

She is always prophasising

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it,–if

the weaker sex are acknowledged to be serious impedimenta in cases of flight.

Weaker sex??

Mr. Tulliver's sister,–a large-boned woman, who had married as poorly as could be; had no china,

Had no china. China is an indication of

Maggie rushed to her deeds with passionate impulse, and then saw not only their consequences, but what would have happened if they had not been done,

'When land is gone and money's spent, Then learning is most excellent.'

But us that have got no learning had better keep our money,

her indignation would fizz and ooze a little, though she was determined to keep it corked up,

too hot to be damped by any amount of tears.

And now the women were gone, they could carry on their serious talk without frivolous interruption.

empty sacks 'ull never stand upright."

Tom turned white with anger, but said nothing; he would have struck her, only he knew it was cowardly to strike a girl, and Tom Tulliver was quite determined he would never do anything cowardly.

Feminism

Tom rebelled particularly against this shoewiping, which he always considered in the light of an indignity to his sex.

Maggie lingered at a distance, looking like a small Medusa with her snakes cropped.

What an imagery. Seems like narrator is baised

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love,

There were passions at war in

"it's your children,–there's no knowing what they'll come to."

"They're such children for the water, mine are," she said aloud, without reflecting that there was no one to hear her; "they'll be brought in dead and drownded some day.

The Catholics, bad harvests, and the mysterious fluctuations of trade were the three evils mankind had to fear;

But it is well known that this conjugal complacency belongs only to the weaker portion of the sex,

Stelling was not the man to enfeeble and emasculate his pupil's mind by simplifying and explaining, or to reduce the tonic effect of etymology by mixing it with smattering, extraneous information, such as is given to girls.

quite nullified his boyish self-satisfaction, and gave him something of the girl's susceptibility.

I learn Latin too! Girls never learn such things. They're too silly."

you ought to stop twice as long at a semicolon as you do at a comma,

"They can pick up a little of everything, I dare say," said Mr. Stelling. "They've a great deal of superficial cleverness; but they couldn't go far into anything. They're quick and shallow."

The dark afternoons and the first December snow seemed to him far livelier than the August sunshine;

requiring you to look bland rather than formidable, yet never, since you had a beard,

The narrator assuming that readers are only male gendered

moreover, had rather a tenderness for deformed things;

What a nice way to disabled

"when you come to money business, and you may be taking one man's dinner away to make another man's breakfast. You don't understand that, I doubt?"

If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself;

you're a lad of sixteen, trained to nothing particular. There's heaps of your sort, like so many pebbles, made to fit in nowhere.

even in that later time of anti-Catholic preaching, for people to hold many pagan ideas, and believe themselves good church-people, notwithstanding;

he considered that church was one thing and common-sense another,

"I'll take care that the debts are paid, without your lowering yourself in that way."

once "contrairy" child was become so submissive, so backward to assert her own will.

The mother was getting fond of her tall, brown girl,–the only bit of furniture now on which she could bestow her anxiety and pride;

Our life is determined for us; and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do."