[The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mill on the Floss CHAPTER V 5/15
"I don't want _your_ money, you silly thing. I've got a great deal more money than you, because I'm a boy.
I always have half-sovereigns and sovereigns for my Christmas boxes because I shall be a man, and you only have five-shilling pieces, because you're only a girl." "Well, but, Tom--if mother would let me give you two half-crowns and a sixpence out of my purse to put into your pocket and spend, you know, and buy some more rabbits with it ?" "More rabbits? I don't want any more." "Oh, but, Tom, they're all dead." Tom stopped immediately in his walk and turned round toward Maggie. "You forgot to feed 'em, then, and Harry forgot ?" he said, his color heightening for a moment, but soon subsiding.
"I'll pitch into Harry. I'll have him turned away.
And I don't love you, Maggie.
You sha'n't go fishing with me to-morrow.
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