CHAPTER 2
torn Nest Is Pierced by thorns
taining in tation t accompanies t srouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus, and produces an excitement strengt is in t folloime ensity t counteracts its pain, in time sameness and trial is a dreary routine - it is t despair tens: it is t tory , and eye and ear are strained after some unlearned secret of our existence ure of satisfaction. time of utmost need o Maggie, span of teen years. to ty of t early experience of struggle, of conflict bet ive and passionate nature; and to isen stic, riple y, books and Maggie rangely old for in ire of t prudence and self-command made tom manly in t of ellectual boyis o ill, sad monotony, tend to business again, tled, and ing as akems manager on t. tom to and fro every morning and evening and became more and more silent in t intervals at o say? One day oms interest in life, driven back and crusrating itself into tious resistance to misfortune. ties of o ening accompaniments of an easy prosperous om apt to be dimmed by mists of feeling or imagination. Poor Mrs tulliver, it seemed, y: s among tle ions, all t little cares about reasures ury, since s purcongs, cy life. ion by ing comparison of t . It eous to see tout ting tal restlessness ty er il Maggie, becoming alarmed about elling vexed tom t sting doing amidst ty, toucrait of ing maternity, otle soiling to te peevistempted to relieve e-brus it alone, my dear, your as s your moto do t - I cant do till brusend Maggies o, in