Middlemarch - 32 by George Eliot in English Fiction Stories PDF

Middlemarch - 32

by George Eliot in English Fiction Stories

CHAPTER XXXII. They’ll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.—SHAKESPEARE: Tempest. The triumphant confidence of the Mayor founded on Mr. Featherstone’s insistent demand that Fred and his mother should not leave him, was a feeble emotion compared with all ...Read Morewas agitating the breasts of the old man’s blood-relations, who naturally manifested more their sense of the family tie and were more visibly numerous now that he had become bedridden. Naturally: for when “poor Peter” had occupied his arm-chair in the wainscoted parlor, no assiduous beetles for whom the cook prepares boiling water could have been less welcome on a Read Less