LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
[ TOM CAME RUNNING TO PREVENT MAGGIE FROM SNATCHING
HER LINE AWAY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
[ "MY PRETTY LADY, ARE YOU COME TO STAY WITH US?" ]
[ "HERE, MAGGIE, COME AND HEAR IF I CAN SAY THIS" ]
[ "O TOM, PLEASE DON'T," CRIED MAGGIE ]
MAGGIE AND TOM TULLIVER.
Chapter I.
TOM MUST GO TO SCHOOL.
"What I want, you know," said Mr. Tulliver of Dorlcote Mill—"what I want is to give Tom a good eddication. That was what I was thinking of when I gave notice for him to leave th' academy at Lady Day. I meant to put him to a downright good school at Midsummer.