[The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mill on the Floss CHAPTER IX 19/19
I shall tell Jane that; and I don't mind driving to Jane's tomorrow, if Pullet doesn't mind.
What do you say, Mr.Pullet ?" "I've no objections," said Mr.Pullet, who was perfectly contented with any course the quarrel might take, so that Mr.Tulliver did not apply to _him_ for money.
Mr.Pullet was nervous about his investments, and did not see how a man could have any security for his money unless he turned it into land. After a little further discussion as to whether it would not be better for Mrs.Tulliver to accompany them on a visit to sister Glegg, Mrs. Pullet, observing that it was tea-time, turned to reach from a drawer a delicate damask napkin, which she pinned before her in the fashion of an apron.
The door did, in fact, soon open, but instead of the tea-tray, Sally introduced an object so startling that both Mrs. Pullet and Mrs.Tulliver gave a scream, causing uncle Pullet to swallow his lozenge--for the fifth time in his life, as he afterward noted..
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