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The Mill on the Floss

CHAPTER VII
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"He won't take more than two or three pupils, and so he'll have the more time to attend to 'em, you know." "Ah, and get his eddication done the sooner; they can't learn much at a time when there's so many of 'em," said uncle Pullet, feeling that he was getting quite an insight into this difficult matter.
"But he'll want the more pay, I doubt," said Mr.Glegg.
"Ay, ay, a cool hundred a year, that's all," said Mr.Tulliver, with some pride at his own spirited course.

"But then, you know, it's an investment; Tom's eddication 'ull be so much capital to him." "Ay, there's something in that," said Mr.Glegg.

"Well well, neighbor Tulliver, you may be right, you may be right: 'When land is gone and money's spent, Then learning is most excellent.' "I remember seeing those two lines wrote on a window at Buxton.

But us that have got no learning had better keep our money, eh, neighbor Pullet ?" Mr.Glegg rubbed his knees, and looked very pleasant.
"Mr.Glegg, I wonder _at_ you," said his wife.

"It's very unbecoming in a man o' your age and belongings." "What's unbecoming, Mrs.G. ?" said Mr.Glegg, winking pleasantly at the company.


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