ther, she rushed upstairs, checking herself at the bedroom door to throw off her Menn Cesar Azpilicueta Fotballdrakter bonnet, and enter on tiptoe. All was silent there; her father was lying, heedless of everything around him, with his eyes closed as when she had left him. A servant was there, but not her mother.
“Where’s my mother?” she whispered. The servant did not know.
Maggie hastened out, and said to Tom; “Father is lying quiet; let us go and look for my mother. I wonder where she is.”
Mrs. Tulliver was not downstairs, not in any of the bedrooms. There was but one room below the attic which Maggie had left unsearched; it was the storeroom, where her mother kept all her linen and all the precious “best things” that were Menn Diego Costa Fotballdrakter only unwrapped and brought out on special occasions.
Tom, preceding Maggie, as they returned along the passage, opened the door of this room, and immediately said, “Mother!”
Mrs. Tulliver was seated there with all her laid-up treasures. One of the linen chests was open; the silver teapot was unwrapped from its many folds of paper, and the best china was laid out on the top of the closed linen-chest; spoons and skewers and ladles were spread in rows on the shelves; and the poor woman was shaking her head and weeping, with a bitter tension of the mouth, over the mark, “Elizabeth Dodson,” on the corner of some tablecloths she held in her lap.
She dropped them, and started up as Tom spoke.
“Oh, my boy, my boy!” she said, clasping him round the neck. “To think as I should live to see this day! We’re ruined — everything’s going to be sold up — to think as your father should ha’ married me to bring me to this! We’ve got Menn Adrien Rabiot Fotballdrakter nothing — we shall be beggars — Menn Emily Sonnett Fotballdrakter we must go to the workhouse ——”
She kissed him, then seated herself again, and took another tablecloth on her lap, unfolding it a little way to look at the pattern, while the children stood by in mute wretchedness, their minds quite filled for the moment with the words “beggars” and “workhouse.”
“To think o’ these cloths as I spun myself,” she went on, lifting things out and turning them over with an excitement all the more strange and piteous because the stout blond woman was usually so passive — if she had been ruffled before, it was at the surface merely — “and Job Haxey wove ’em, and brought the piece home on his back, as I remember standing at the door and seeing him come, Menn Federico Marchetti Fotballdrakter before I ever thought o’ marrying your father! And the pattern as I chose myself, and bleached so beautiful, and I marked ’em so as nobody ever saw such marking — they must cut the cloth to get Menn Ilkay Gundogan Fotballdrakter it out, for it’s a particular stitch. And they’re all to be sold, and go into strange people’s houses, and perhaps be cut with the knives, and wore out before I’m dead. You’ll never have one of ’em, my boy,” she said, looking up at Tom Japan Trikot with her eyes full of tears, “and I meant ’em for you. I wanted you to have all o’ this pattern. Maggie could have had the large check — it never shows so well when the dis |
