s movement as so tomatically,  reflecting t it ake  painful moment of arrival. tall, rast to ters as sered in  looking as if tily  entire absence of self-consciousness  trouble. Maggie o o notice no one else except tom, raigo and took by the hand.

    `O my dear c out, `youve no call to t to you, for Im one o take all and give nother?

    `Mr turnbull t better, said Maggie. `Sit do Gritty. Dont fret.

    `O my s corn i to lead o t still not seeming to notice t. `eve ts it, and you all  it, poor t  be sold up to pay it, and t of em, and ttle un of all cant speak plain. And I feel as if I  Im sure Id no t as my brother...

    terrupted by a rising sob.

    `tulliver, ation at  in the dark.

    ` madness, to be sure! said Mrs Glegg. `A man  to lend   security, Ill be bound, if truth was known.

    Mrs Gleggs voice ed Mrs Mosss attention, and, looking up, she said,

    `Yes, ty: my e for it. ere not t sort o people, neito paying back times got a bit better.

    `ell, but noly, ` your  ud be a little fortin, like, for t tullivers being made a bankrupt. Your  stock: it is but rig seems to me - not but w Im sorry for you, Mrs Moss.

    `O sir, you dont kno o stock, and , and  but o do  ud be any good... but ttle uns...

    `Dont cry so, aunt - dont fret, w hold of Mrs Mosss hand.

    `Did Mr tulliver, let you  once? said Mrs tulliver, still lost in tion of t her knowledge.

    `No, at to restrain ears. `t er my bad illness, four years ago, as e