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3,266 | 6688_book_5,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie's internal conflict continues: she doesn't know if she should keep seeing Philip in secret or not. Though she really wants to see him, she decides that she has to break off contact with him. Maggie goes back to the Red Deeps to find Philip and she tells him that they can't see each other ever again. Philip is se... | [
"The Wavering Balance",
"I said that Maggie went home that evening from the Red Deeps with a\nmental conflict already begun. You have seen clearly enough, in her\ninterview with Philip, what that conflict was. Here suddenly was an\nopening in the rocky wall which shut in the narrow valley of\nhumiliation, where a... |
3,267 | 6688_book_5,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We jump forward a year. Maggie and Philip have been meeting secretly all this time. Maggie is much more cheerful and witty here and she teases Philip about the book he has lent her. Maggie declares that she's tired of the blonde girls always getting the guy in the books she reads and refuses to read any more books like... | [
"Another Love-Scene",
"Early in the following April, nearly a year after that dubious parting\nyou have just witnessed, you may, if you like, again see Maggie\nentering the Red Deeps through the group of Scotch firs. But it is\nearly afternoon and not evening, and the edge of sharpness in the\nspring air makes he... |
3,268 | 6688_book_5,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie is worried that someone is going to find out about her secret meetings with Philip and she imagines lots of scenarios where her secret is outed. The day after her latest meeting with her now kind-of boyfriend Philip, Maggie has tea with her family and the Pullets. Tom is in a super mood and has been happy that M... | [
"The Cloven Tree",
"Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any programme\nour fear has sketched out. Fear is almost always haunted by terrible\ndramatic scenes, which recur in spite of the best-argued probabilities\nagainst them; and during a year that Maggie had had the burthen of\nconcealment on... |
3,269 | 6688_book_5,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Three weeks have passed. Tom gathers all the family in the parlor to tell them some news. First Tom asks his dad to check out his box of money and see how much is in it. Mr. Tulliver thinks this is dumb since he already knows how much is in there, because he counts his money every day. Tom then asks how much money is n... | [
"The Hard-Won Triumph",
"Three weeks later, when Dorlcote Mill was at its prettiest moment in\nall the year,--the great chestnuts in blossom, and the grass all deep\nand daisied,--Tom Tulliver came home to it earlier than usual in the\nevening, and as he passed over the bridge, he looked with the old\ndeep-rooted... |
3,270 | 6688_book_5,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ominous chapter title alert. The next day, Mr. Tulliver is back to his old self. He is in a good mood and makes a short speech to the creditors about how he's an honest man and explains that he triumphed over the evil lawyers. Tom then gets up and makes a great speech about regaining the family honor. It impresses ever... | [
"A Day of Reckoning",
"Mr. Tulliver was an essentially sober man,--able to take his glass and\nnot averse to it, but never exceeding the bounds of moderation. He had\nnaturally an active Hotspur temperament, which did not crave liquid\nfire to set it aglow; his impetuosity was usually equal to an exciting\noccasi... |
3,271 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's a brand new character! We meet Stephen Guest - rich, young, attractive, and currently flirting with Lucy Deane. The two banter for a while and discuss Lucy's dog, Minny. Stephen steals Lucy's scissors. Turns out they are both friends with Philip Wakem. It's a small world after all. Lucy tells Stephen some big news... | [
"A Duet in Paradise",
"The well-furnished drawing-room, with the open grand piano, and the\npleasant outlook down a sloping garden to a boat-house by the side of\nthe Floss, is Mr. Deane's. The neat little lady in mourning, whose\nlight-brown ringlets are falling over the colored embroidery with\nwhich her finger... |
3,272 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy and Maggie are hanging out and chatting. Maggie is in a good mood and is displaying her very sarcastic sense of humor. The two are discussing Stephen Guest. Lucy says that she's in no hurry to get married right now. Lucy also mentions that Stephen's sisters have been nice to her. Lucy decides that Maggie needs a m... | [
"First Impressions",
"\"He is very clever, Maggie,\" said Lucy. She was kneeling on a\nfootstool at Maggie's feet, after placing that dark lady in the large\ncrimson-velvet chair. \"I feel sure you will like him. I hope you\nwill.\"",
"\"I shall be very difficult to please,\" said Maggie, smiling, and\nholding ... |
3,273 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That night Maggie is having trouble getting ready for bed. She is too excited to sleep. She heard some great music that night and her encounters with Stephen are leaving her on edge. The narrator explains how important music is for Maggie and how she hasn't had much of it in her life for the past two years. She's basic... | [
"Confidential Moments",
"When Maggie went up to her bedroom that night, it appeared that she\nwas not at all inclined to undress. She set down her candle on the\nfirst table that presented itself, and began to walk up and down her\nroom, which was a large one, with a firm, regular, and rather rapid\nstep, which s... |
3,274 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie goes to see Tom the next day. Tom is renting a room from Bob Jakin. Bob is now married and his mother also lives with them. Bob's wife is very tiny and very sweet and she is happy to see Maggie. Bob comes in to say hello to Maggie. He is as cheerful and as talkative as ever. Bob brags about his wife and notes th... | [
"Brother and Sister",
"Maggie was obliged to go to Tom's lodgings in the middle of the day,\nwhen he would be coming in to dinner, else she would not have found\nhim at home. He was not lodging with entire strangers. Our friend Bob\nJakin had, with Mumps's tacit consent, taken not only a wife about\neight months ... |
3,275 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom is at the bank talking to Mr. Deane. Tom has been going on business trips and is doing really well. Mr. Deane gives another one of his patented 'back in my day, sonny, I walked 50 miles in the snow everywhere' type of speeches. This time he talks about how the world is changing. We learn that Tom has been working f... | [
"Showing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster",
"\"And now we've settled this Newcastle business, Tom,\" said Mr. Deane,\nthat same afternoon, as they were seated in the private room at the\nBank together, \"there's another matter I want to talk to you about.\nSince you're likely to have rather a smoky, unpleasant time... |
3,276 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie is currently living it up with Lucy. She has an actual social life for the first time ever and she's pretty popular in St. Ogg's. Stephen's sisters feel that Maggie's manners are questionable though and lots of people feel sorry for her in town. Maggie is really enjoying herself though and starts playing the pia... | [
"Illustrating the Laws of Attraction",
"It is evident to you now that Maggie had arrived at a moment in her\nlife which must be considered by all prudent persons as a great\nopportunity for a young woman. Launched into the higher society of St. Ogg's, with a striking person, which had the advantage of being quite... |
3,277 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Philip finally shows up. He and Maggie have a rather awkward reunion. Maggie is conflicted about her feelings for Stephen and Philip. Lucy tries to play matchmaker. But Philip notices a change in Maggie and is worried that her feelings for him have changed. Lucy makes a lame excuse and leaves the room. Maggie and Phili... | [
"Philip Re-enters",
"The next morning was very wet,--the sort of morning on which male\nneighbors who have no imperative occupation at home are likely to pay\ntheir fair friends an illimitable visit. The rain, which has been\nendurable enough for the walk or ride one way, is sure to become so\nheavy, and at the s... |
3,278 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A few days have passed. Lucy has enlisted Philip in her scheme. Philip invites his dad upstairs to come see his latest paintings. Wakem praises his son's work and then notices two portraits which are unusual, since Philip normally paints landscapes. Philip explains that they are pictures of Maggie Tulliver. Wakem has h... | [
"Wakem in a New Light",
"Before three days had passed after the conversation you have just\noverheard between Lucy and her father she had contrived to have a\nprivate interview with Philip during a visit of Maggie's to her aunt\nGlegg. For a day and a night Philip turned over in his mind with\nrestless agitation ... |
3,279 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's the day of the bazaar in St. Ogg's. Maggie is stuck manning a popular booth, which doesn't make her happy. She'd rather be somewhere less conspicuous. Stephen hangs out at Lucy's booth and she scolds him for ignoring Maggie. Mr. Wakem then goes over to Maggie's booth and is very polite to her. Maggie is confused b... | [
"Charity in Full-Dress",
"The culmination of Maggie's career as an admired member of society in\nSt. Ogg's was certainly the day of the bazaar, when her simple noble\nbeauty, clad in a white muslin of some soft-floating kind, which I\nsuspect must have come from the stores of aunt Pullet's wardrobe,\nappeared wit... |
3,280 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Time for a party. It's a who's who deal for St. Ogg's. Everyone cool is there. Maggie refuses to dance at first but finally agree to dance with a man named Mr. Torry. She has fun. Stephen is back to ignoring Maggie. He is conflicted, especially after his confrontation with Philip yesterday. Part of Stephen wants to cla... | [
"The Spell Seems Broken",
"The suite of rooms opening into each other at Park House looked duly\nbrilliant with lights and flowers and the personal splendors of\nsixteen couples, with attendant parents and guardians. The focus of\nbrilliancy was the long drawing-room, where the dancing went forward,\nunder the in... |
3,281 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie has been at her Aunt Moss's house for a few days. Suddenly, Stephen shows up unexpectedly. Maggie and Stephen go for a walk together. Stephen finally blurts out that he's in love with Maggie and can't fight this feeling anymore. Maggie is upset and tells Stephen to be quiet. Stephen begs Maggie to stay with him ... | [
"In the Lane",
"Maggie had been four days at her aunt Moss's giving the early June\nsunshine quite a new brightness in the care-dimmed eyes of that\naffectionate woman, and making an epoch for her cousins great and\nsmall, who were learning her words and actions by heart, as if she had\nbeen a transient avatar of... |
3,282 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie and Lucy are paying a visit to the Pullets and some other family members are coming over as well. The manager that Mr. Wakem had for the mill has had an accident and may die. He was drunk at the time too. Wakem is ready to sell the mill and it looks like Tom will be able to get it back now after all. The group s... | [
"A Family Party",
"Maggie left her good aunt Gritty at the end of the week, and went to\nGarum Firs to pay her visit to aunt Pullet according to agreement. In\nthe mean time very unexpected things had happened, and there was to be\na family party at Garum to discuss and celebrate a change in the\nfortunes of the ... |
3,283 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie is spending most of her time with her mother and visiting the Gleggs. But Lucy still insists she come to see her daily. Stephen and Maggie have a silent understanding between them and are waiting for Maggie to leave soon for her new governess job. Maggie is still struggling internally with her decision to leave ... | [
"Borne Along by the Tide",
"In less than a week Maggie was at St. Ogg's again,--outwardly in much\nthe same position as when her visit there had just begun. It was easy\nfor her to fill her mornings apart from Lucy without any obvious\neffort; for she had her promised visits to pay to her aunt Glegg, and\nit was ... |
3,284 | 6688_book_6,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The two go to sleep but Maggie has disturbing dreams involving Lucy and Philip. When she wakes up she knows that she has to leave Stephen, since eloping with him is wrong. But she is conflicted yet again - is Maggie ever not conflicted? Maggie can't decide what the right thing to do is. She feels that eloping is wrong ... | [
"Waking",
"When Maggie was gone to sleep, Stephen, weary too with his\nunaccustomed amount of rowing, and with the intense inward life of the\nlast twelve hours, but too restless to sleep, walked and lounged about\nthe deck with his cigar far on into midnight, not seeing the dark\nwater, hardly conscious there we... |
3,285 | 6688_book_7,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie has been away from St. Ogg's for five days. She was so distraught that she accidentally took the wrong carriage when she left Mudport and headed north. She spent the night in York before turning around and heading back south to St. Ogg's. Maggie goes to see Tom first thing. Tom already knows about her and Stephe... | [
"The Return to the Mill",
"Between four and five o'clock on the afternoon of the fifth day from\nthat on which Stephen and Maggie had left St. Ogg's, Tom Tulliver was\nstanding on the gravel walk outside the old house at Dorlcote Mill. He\nwas master there now; he had half fulfilled his father's dying wish,\nand ... |
3,286 | 6688_book_7,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator gives a run-down of St. Ogg's society. It's a town ruled by gossip and a lot of prejudiced and judgmental minds. The women of St. Ogg's are particularly vicious gossips. We get a hypothetical, what-if situation: if Maggie had actually married Stephen, people would have been shocked, but would have quickly ... | [
"St. Ogg's Passes Judgment",
"It was soon known throughout St. Ogg's that Miss Tulliver was come back; she had not, then, eloped in order to be married to Mr. Stephen Guest,--at all events, Mr. Stephen Guest had not married her; which came to the same thing, so far as her culpability was concerned. We judge other... |
3,287 | 6688_book_7,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The unexpected behavior comes from none other than Mrs. Glegg. Mrs. Tulliver reports on this to Maggie. Turns out that Mrs. Glegg heard about everything from Tom and tells him off for thinking so badly of his sister. Mrs. Glegg says that family needs to stick together and that Maggie is family first and foremost. She r... | [
"Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us",
"When Maggie was at home again, her mother brought her news of an\nunexpected line of conduct in aunt Glegg. As long as Maggie had not\nbeen heard of, Mrs. Glegg had half closed her shutters and drawn down\nher blinds. She felt assured that Maggie was... |
3,288 | 6688_book_7,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Kenn is appalled at the awful behavior of the people of St. Ogg's towards Maggie. He tries to explain the situation to people and no one listens to him. He also has no luck in finding Maggie a job since no one will hire her. The town wishes Maggie would either go live with Mrs. Glegg, who actually seemed to want he... | [
"Maggie and Lucy",
"By the end of the week Dr. Kenn had made up his mind that there was\nonly one way in which he could secure to Maggie a suitable living at\nSt. Ogg's. Even with his twenty years' experience as a parish priest,\nhe was aghast at the obstinate continuance of imputations against her\nin the face o... |
3,289 | 6688_book_7,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's been raining non-stop for a few days and the river is starting to rise. But St. Ogg's hasn't had a bad flood in years, so most people aren't too concerned. Except for some old people who remember the last bad flood, but nobody listens to old people, so there you go. It's nighttime and Maggie is sitting up alone wi... | [
"The Last Conflict",
"In the second week of September, Maggie was again sitting in her\nlonely room, battling with the old shadowy enemies that were forever\nslain and rising again. It was past midnight, and the rain was beating\nheavily against the window, driven with fitful force by the rushing,\nloud-moaning w... |
3,232 | 6688_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel opens with a description of the countryside around the town of St. Ogg's and the river Floss. Impersonal description quickly gives way to a more personal tone, and we see that the story is to be a personal reminiscence of a narrator whose character we do not yet know. The narrator notes a wagon passing the mi... | [
"Outside Dorlcote Mill",
"A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green\nbanks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its\npassage with an impetuous embrace. On this mighty tide the black\nships--laden with the fresh-scented fir-planks, with rounded sacks of\noil-beari... |
3,233 | 6688_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Tulliver states his intention of sending Tom to a different school, where he can learn to be "a sort o' engineer, or a surveyor, or an auctioneer and vallyer, like Riley, or one o' them smartish businesses as are all profits and no outlay . . . ." Mrs. Tulliver wishes to call in the aunts and uncles to discuss the ... | [
"Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom",
"\"What I want, you know,\" said Mr. Tulliver,--\"what I want is to give\nTom a good eddication; an eddication as'll be a bread to him. That was\nwhat I was thinking of when I gave notice for him to leave the academy\nat Lady-day. I mean to put ... |
3,234 | 6688_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Riley comes to visit, and before supper Mr. Tulliver asks his advice about a school for Tom. He hints that he thinks it best to start Tom in another field, "as he may make a nest for himself, an' not want to push me out o' mine." Maggie is in the room, and she leaps to Tom's defense. She drops the book she has been... | [
"Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom",
"The gentleman in the ample white cravat and shirt-frill, taking his\nbrandy-and-water so pleasantly with his good friend Tulliver, is Mr.\nRiley, a gentleman with a waxen complexion and fat hands, rather\nhighly educated for an auctioneer and appraiser, b... |
3,235 | 6688_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Because Maggie is not allowed to go out to meet Tom on his arrival, she takes revenge by dousing her newly brushed hair in a basin of water and then goes to the attic to torment a doll she keeps as a fetish. Finally she tires of that and goes out to talk to Luke the miller. She tries to show off her cleverness to Luke,... | [
"Tom Is Expected",
"It was a heavy disappointment to Maggie that she was not allowed to go\nwith her father in the gig when he went to fetch Tom home from the\nacademy; but the morning was too wet, Mrs. Tulliver said, for a little\ngirl to go out in her best bonnet. Maggie took the opposite view very\nstrongly, a... |
3,236 | 6688_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom has brought home a gift for Maggie, a new fish line. He acquired it at some cost to himself, having had to fight every day at school because he wouldn't share the cost of toffee and gingerbread while he was saving the money. For this and for his promise to take Maggie fishing the next day Tom receives the admiratio... | [
"Tom Comes Home",
"Tom was to arrive early in the afternoon, and there was another\nfluttering heart besides Maggie's when it was late enough for the\nsound of the gig-wheels to be expected; for if Mrs. Tulliver had a\nstrong feeling, it was fondness for her boy. At last the sound\ncame,--that quick light bowling... |
3,237 | 6688_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The aunts and uncles are to be invited to discuss Tom's education, and Mr. and Mrs. Tulliver are working out the details. Mr. Tulliver is not concerned about their opinions, and he cares less than does his wife about the money her relatives might leave to Maggie and Tom. Mrs. Tulliver laments that her children are so a... | [
"The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming",
"It was Easter week, and Mrs. Tulliver's cheesecakes were more\nexquisitely light than usual. \"A puff o' wind 'ud make 'em blow about\nlike feathers,\" Kezia the housemaid said, feeling proud to live under\na mistress who could make such pastry; so that no season or\ncircumstan... |
3,238 | 6688_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Glegg is the first of the aunts to arrive. She passes the time by complaining how the old ways have altered, now that some of the family are later than others. She declines a bit of cheesecake because it is against her principles to eat between meals, but recommends that Mrs. Tulliver have dinner earlier and lectu... | [
"Enter the Aunts and Uncles",
"The Dodsons were certainly a handsome family, and Mrs. Glegg was not\nthe least handsome of the sisters. As she sat in Mrs. Tulliver's\narm-chair, no impartial observer could have denied that for a woman of\nfifty she had a very comely face and figure, though Tom and Maggie\nconside... |
3,239 | 6688_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Tulliver reminds her husband that it will be hard for him to find five hundred pounds to pay Mrs. Glegg. This convinces him that he can find it easily. But the only way he can think of to accomplish this is to demand payment of the three hundred pounds he has loaned to his brother-in-law Moss. Accordingly, he ride... | [
"Mr. Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side",
"\"Suppose sister Glegg should call her money in; it 'ud be very awkward\nfor you to have to raise five hundred pounds now,\" said Mrs. Tulliver\nto her husband that evening, as she took a plaintive review of the\nday.",
"Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husb... |
3,240 | 6688_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While her father has gone to the Mosses, Maggie has gone with her mother and Tom and Lucy to visit the Pullets at Garum Firs. Maggie is uncomfortable in her good clothes, but Lucy is pretty and neat as ever. They have been dressed early, so the children pass the time by building card houses. Maggie is not good at it, a... | [
"To Garum Firs",
"While the possible troubles of Maggie's future were occupying her\nfather's mind, she herself was tasting only the bitterness of the\npresent. Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no\nmemories of outlived sorrow.",
"The fact was, the day had begun ill with Maggie. The pleas... |
3,241 | 6688_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The gathering is startled by the appearance of Lucy, covered with mud from head to toe. Her condition is the result of the attention Tom has paid to her while he has slighted Maggie. To punish Maggie, Tom has offered to take Lucy to see the pike in the pond at the end of the garden, even though they were supposed to st... | [
"Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected",
"The startling object which thus made an epoch for uncle Pullet was no\nother than little Lucy, with one side of her person, from her small\nfoot to her bonnet-crown, wet and discolored with mud, holding out two\ntiny blackened hands, and making a very piteous face. To ac... |
3,242 | 6688_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie has not gone home, but has decided to run away to the gypsies. She has often been told she is like a gypsy, and she expects they will be glad to have her and respect her for her knowledge. She meets two tramps in the lane, and one of them begs a sixpence from her. After that she crosses the fields to avoid meeti... | [
"Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow",
"Maggie's intentions, as usual, were on a larger scale than Tom\nimagined. The resolution that gathered in her mind, after Tom and Lucy\nhad walked away, was not so simple as that of going home. No! she\nwould run away and go to the gypsies, and Tom should never see her... |
3,243 | 6688_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | St. Ogg's is "one of those old, old towns which impress one as a continuation and outgrowth of nature." It is named for its patron saint, who was a boatman operating a ferry across the river Floss. It is said that one evening when the winds were high, a woman with a child wished to cross the river, but no one would tak... | [
"Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home",
"In order to see Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at home, we must enter the town of\nSt. Ogg's,--that venerable town with the red fluted roofs and the\nbroad warehouse gables, where the black ships unlade themselves of\ntheir burthens from the far north, and carry away, in exchange, the\nprecious... |
3,244 | 6688_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "Owing to this new adjustment of Mrs. Glegg's thoughts," Mrs. Pullet finds it easy to convince her that the money should be left with Tulliver. Mrs. Glegg predicts a dim future for the Tulliver family, but she intends "to set an example in every respect." Unfortunately, Mrs. Tulliver, through her "irrepressible hopeful... | [
"Mr. Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life",
"Owing to this new adjustment of Mrs. Glegg's thoughts, Mrs. Pullet\nfound her task of mediation the next day surprisingly easy. Mrs.\nGlegg, indeed checked her rather sharply for thinking it would be\nnecessary to tell her elder sister what was the right mode o... |
3,245 | 6688_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom is Rev. Stelling's only pupil at King's Lorton, and he finds life difficult. He is good at games but a poor scholar, and now that he has no companions he feels lost. Furthermore, he cannot despise Rev. Stelling as he did Mr. Jacobs at the academy, for "if there were anything that was not thoroughly genuine about Mr... | [
"Tom's \"First Half\"",
"Tom Tulliver's sufferings during the first quarter he was at King's\nLorton, under the distinguished care of the Rev. Walter Stelling, were\nrather severe. At Mr. Jacob's academy life had not presented itself to\nhim as a difficult problem; there were plenty of fellows to play with,\nand ... |
3,246 | 6688_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Despite Tom's delight in being home, this Christmas is not quite so happy as past ones. His father has a new quarrel going, and Tom is "distracted by a sense that there were rascally enemies in the world . . . ." This argument is with Mr. Pivart, a new neighbor who is planning to irrigate his property farther up the ri... | [
"The Christmas Holidays",
"Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his\nduty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts\nof warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and\nsnow.",
"Snow lay on the croft and river-bank in undulations softer than the... |
3,247 | 6688_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When he returns to school, Tom meets Philip Wakem. Mr. Stelling introduces the two boys and then leaves them alone together. Philip is a small, deformed youth with a hump as the result of a childhood accident. Tom feels an aversion to him, and Philip is too proud and timid to speak, so they are both silent until Tom se... | [
"The New Schoolfellow",
"It was a cold, wet January day on which Tom went back to school; a day\nquite in keeping with this severe phase of his destiny. If he had not\ncarried in his pocket a parcel of sugar-candy and a small Dutch doll\nfor little Laura, there would have been no ray of expected pleasure to\nenli... |
3,248 | 6688_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Despite his admiration for Philip's stories and drawing ability, Tom never quite overcomes the feeling that Philip is his enemy. Tom's schoolwork does not improve very much. Mr. Stelling is convinced that "a boy so stupid at signs and abstractions must be stupid at everything else," but Tom is not so very unlucky in hi... | [
"\"The Young Idea\"",
"The alterations of feeling in that first dialogue between Tom and Philip continued to make their intercourse even after many weeks of schoolboy intimacy. Tom never quite lost the feeling that Philip, being the son of a \"rascal,\" was his natural enemy; never thoroughly overcame his repulsi... |
3,249 | 6688_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom sees no reason not to make up this quarrel with Philip "as they had done many others, by behaving as if nothing had happened"; but Philip does not respond. However, when Maggie comes, she is interested in Philip, especially because she "had rather a tenderness for deformed things." Tom has prepared a surprise for M... | [
"Maggie's Second Visit",
"This last breach between the two lads was not readily mended, and for\nsome time they spoke to each other no more than was necessary. Their\nnatural antipathy of temperament made resentment an easy passage to\nhatred, and in Philip the transition seemed to have begun; there was\nno malig... |
3,250 | 6688_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom "bore his severe pain heroically," but he dares not ask whether he will be lame. Philip is the only one who anticipates this fear, and pity makes him forgive Tom. He learns from Mr. Stelling that the injury is not permanent and brings the good news to Tom. After this Philip spends his free time with Tom and Maggie.... | [
"A Love-Scene",
"Poor Tom bore his severe pain heroically, and was resolute in not\n\"telling\" of Mr. Poulter more than was unavoidable; the five-shilling\npiece remained a secret even to Maggie. But there was a terrible dread\nweighing on his mind, so terrible that he dared not even ask the\nquestion which migh... |
3,251 | 6688_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom goes on at King's Lorton until his fifth half-year, while Maggie is sent to a girls' boarding school with Lucy. She does meet Philip once on the street, but she is by then too much a young lady to honor her promise to kiss him. Once their father's lawsuit begins, even Maggie knows they are not likely to be friendly... | [
"The Golden Gates Are Passed",
"So Tom went on even to the fifth half-year--till he was turned sixteen--at King's Lorton, while Maggie was growing with a rapidity which her aunts considered highly reprehensible, at Miss Firniss's boarding-school in the ancient town of Laceham on the Floss, with cousin Lucy for he... |
3,252 | 6688_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When he learns that the suit is lost, Tulliver casts about for some way to avoid looking like a ruined man. He hopes to find someone to buy the mill and take him on as a tenant. "The really vexatious business" is that he has given a bill of sale on his household goods in order to raise the money to pay Mrs. Glegg. He t... | [
"What Had Happened at Home",
"When Mr. Tulliver first knew the fact that the lawsuit was decided\nagainst him, and that Pivart and Wakem were triumphant, every one who\nhappened to observe him at the time thought that, for so confident and\nhot-tempered a man, he bore the blow remarkably well. He thought so\nhims... |
3,253 | 6688_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Tom and Maggie arrive home they find "a coarse, dingy man" in the parlor. Tom immediately realizes that this is the bailiff who has come to "sell them up." Maggie does not recognize him, but is afraid "lest this stranger might have something to do with a change in her father." She finds that Mr. Tulliver is quiet,... | [
"Mrs. Tulliver's Teraphim, or Household Gods",
"When the coach set down Tom and Maggie, it was five hours since she\nhad started from home, and she was thinking with some trembling that\nher father had perhaps missed her, and asked for \"the little wench\" in\nvain. She thought of no other change that might have ... |
3,254 | 6688_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day the aunts and uncles gather for consultation. Mrs. Tulliver, "with a confused impression that it was a great occasion, like a funeral," makes the house look its best. Mrs. Deane arrives first. Her husband, who is rising in the world, is away on business. She offers to send jelly for Mr. Tulliver if the doc... | [
"The Family Council",
"It was at eleven o'clock the next morning that the aunts and uncles\ncame to hold their consultation. The fire was lighted in the large\nparlor, and poor Mrs. Tulliver, with a confused impression that it was\na great occasion, like a funeral, unbagged the bell-rope tassels, and\nunpinned th... |
3,255 | 6688_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie and Mrs. Moss go to Mr. Tulliver's bed while Tom and Mr. Glegg search for the note in Tulliver's old oak chest. They take out some papers, but the chest lid falls, and the sound rouses Mr. Tulliver. He asks sharply what is happening. He recognizes his sister and Maggie and asks about Mrs. Tulliver. He tells Tom ... | [
"A Vanishing Gleam",
"Mr. Tulliver, even between the fits of spasmodic rigidity which had\nrecurred at intervals ever since he had been found fallen from his\nhorse, was usually in so apathetic a condition that the exits and\nentrances into his room were not felt to be of great importance. He\nhad lain so still, ... |
3,256 | 6688_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom goes to see his uncle Deane about a job. He has no definite plan, but he knows he does not "want to save money slowly and retire on a moderate fortune like his uncle Glegg," but to rise fast like his uncle Deane. Mr. Deane is at the bank, and Tom waits until he finishes his business. Mr. Deane asks Tom whether he k... | [
"Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster",
"The next day, at ten o'clock, Tom was on his way to St. Ogg's, to see\nhis uncle Deane, who was to come home last night, his aunt had said;\nand Tom had made up his mind that his uncle Deane was the right person\nto ask for advice about getting some employment. He was in a ... |
3,257 | 6688_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The sale of household goods is finally over. Mrs. Tulliver's face "seemed aged ten years." That evening Tom has a visitor, a young man in dirty clothes who identifies himself as Bob Jakin. Bob shows the knife which Tom once gave him, and recalls that "there was niver nobody else gen me nothin' . . . ." Tom asks if he c... | [
"Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a\nPocket-Knife",
"In that dark time of December, the sale of the household furniture\nlasted beyond the middle of the second day. Mr. Tulliver, who had\nbegun, in his intervals of consciousness, to manifest an irritability\nwhich often appeared to h... |
3,258 | 6688_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Tulliver slowly recovers, but he is unaware of the lapse of time and still imagines himself to be in the "first stage of his misfortunes," able to find a plan to save the mill. His wife and children hope that uncle Deane's company may buy the mill and carry on business, but "business caution" forbids bidding too hi... | [
"How a Hen Takes to Stratagem",
"The days passed, and Mr. Tulliver showed, at least to the eyes of the\nmedical man, stronger and stronger symptoms of a gradual return to his\nnormal condition; the paralytic obstruction was, little by little,\nlosing its tenacity, and the mind was rising from under it with fitful... |
3,259 | 6688_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The land and mill are sold to Wakem, who proposes that Tulliver be retained as manager. This is regarded as a reasonable proposition by the aunts and uncles, although Tom protests against it. But when the time comes that Tulliver is able to move out of his room, he still knows nothing of this. Tom and Maggie and Luke g... | [
"Daylight on the Wreck",
"It was a clear frosty January day on which Mr. Tulliver first came\ndownstairs. The bright sun on the chestnut boughs and the roofs\nopposite his window had made him impatiently declare that he would be\ncaged up no longer; he thought everywhere would be more cheery under\nthis sunshine ... |
3,260 | 6688_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Mr. Tulliver grows stronger, he must struggle with himself to keep his promise to work for Wakem. His wife's sisters remind him "what he was bound to do for poor Bessy's sake," and only "dread of needing their help" keeps him from disregarding their advice. His inability to do other work, and most of all his love of... | [
"An Item Added to the Family Register",
"That first moment of renunciation and submission was followed by days\nof violent struggle in the miller's mind, as the gradual access of\nbodily strength brought with it increasing ability to embrace in one\nview all the conflicting conditions under which he found himself... |
3,261 | 6688_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The great ruined castles to be seen on a Rhine journey are contrasted by the author to the "angular skeletons of villages" on the Rhone, villages which lend a feeling that "human life . . . is a narrow, ugly, grovelling existence . . . ." Family life on the Floss may strike the reader much the same way through its conv... | [
"A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet",
"Journeying down the Rhone on a summer's day, you have perhaps felt the\nsunshine made dreary by those ruined villages which stud the banks in\ncertain parts of its course, telling how the swift river once rose,\nlike an angry, destroying god, sweeping down the f... |
3,262 | 6688_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie, at thirteen, is old for her years but lacks Tom's self-command. Tom throws himself into his work, but Maggie has nothing to do. Mrs. Tulliver remains "Bewildered in this empty life," but this is less painful to Maggie than her father's sullenness. She finds it incomprehensible that they never feel any joy. Mr. ... | [
"The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns",
"There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies\nthe first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a\nstimulus, and produces an excitement which is transient strength. It\nis in the slow, changed life that follows; in the time when sorrow h... |
3,263 | 6688_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One afternoon in the spring Bob Jakin, carrying a pack and followed by a bull terrier, comes to the house. He has brought Maggie a gift of books, chosen mainly for their pictures, but with others comprised of print. Maggie thanks him, saying she hasn't many friends. Bob advises her to "hev a dog, they're better friends... | [
"A Voice from the Past",
"One afternoon, when the chestnuts were coming into flower, Maggie had\nbrought her chair outside the front door, and was seated there with a\nbook on her knees. Her dark eyes had wandered from the book, but they\ndid not seem to be enjoying the sunshine which pierced the screen of\njasmi... |
3,264 | 6688_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day Philip comes to the mill with his father. Maggie hurries upstairs, for she does not want to meet Philip in the presence of their fathers, where it would be impossible for them to be friendly. Maggie would like to "say a few kind words to him," for she feels that he would appreciate her kindness. Maggie is seven... | [
"In the Red Deeps",
"The family sitting-room was a long room with a window at each end; one\nlooking toward the croft and along the Ripple to the banks of the\nFloss, the other into the mill-yard. Maggie was sitting with her work\nagainst the latter window when she saw Mr. Wakem entering the yard, as\nusual, on h... |
3,265 | 6688_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While Maggie has struggled "within her own soul," Tom has been "gaining more definite conquests." His salary has been raised, and it is hinted that he might be trusted to travel for the firm. All of Tom's money goes into his father's tin box; for despite his "very strong appetite for pleasure" he is shrewd enough to se... | [
"Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob's Thumb",
"While Maggie's life-struggles had lain almost entirely within her own\nsoul, one shadowy army fighting another, and the slain shadows forever\nrising again, Tom was engaged in a dustier, noisier warfare, grappling\nwith more substantial obstacles, and gaining more ... |
3,266 | 6688_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie goes home from the meeting with Philip thinking that further meetings would be a kindness to him and at the same time would make "her mind more worthy of its highest service . . . ." Nevertheless, she feels a warning that she is throwing herself under the "guidance of illimitable wants." When they meet again, sh... | [
"The Wavering Balance",
"I said that Maggie went home that evening from the Red Deeps with a\nmental conflict already begun. You have seen clearly enough, in her\ninterview with Philip, what that conflict was. Here suddenly was an\nopening in the rocky wall which shut in the narrow valley of\nhumiliation, where a... |
3,267 | 6688_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is April nearly a year later. Maggie is returning a book to Philip in the Red Deeps. She tells him she disliked the book because the fair-haired heroine once again won away all the love from the dark woman. She says she wants to avenge all the "dark unhappy ones." Philip tells her that perhaps she will do so by carr... | [
"Another Love-Scene",
"Early in the following April, nearly a year after that dubious parting\nyou have just witnessed, you may, if you like, again see Maggie\nentering the Red Deeps through the group of Scotch firs. But it is\nearly afternoon and not evening, and the edge of sharpness in the\nspring air makes he... |
3,268 | 6688_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie has always feared meeting Tom or her father while walking with Philip, but it has never occurred to her to worry about aunt Pullet. Nevertheless, it is aunt Pullet who gives her away by remarking one day that she frequently sees Philip Wakem at the Red Deeps. She means only that she has twice seen Philip there, ... | [
"The Cloven Tree",
"Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any programme\nour fear has sketched out. Fear is almost always haunted by terrible\ndramatic scenes, which recur in spite of the best-argued probabilities\nagainst them; and during a year that Maggie had had the burthen of\nconcealment on... |
3,269 | 6688_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is three weeks later when Tom comes home early, in a good humor, and asks his father to count their money. Mr. Tulliver is sure of the amount, but he does as his son wishes. The amount comes out as he expected, with three hundred pounds still needed for his debts. Mr. Tulliver fears he will not live that long. Tom t... | [
"The Hard-Won Triumph",
"Three weeks later, when Dorlcote Mill was at its prettiest moment in\nall the year,--the great chestnuts in blossom, and the grass all deep\nand daisied,--Tom Tulliver came home to it earlier than usual in the\nevening, and as he passed over the bridge, he looked with the old\ndeep-rooted... |
3,270 | 6688_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At dinner with his creditors, Tulliver looks like his old self. He makes a long speech about his honesty and his admiration for his son. Tom makes a brief speech, giving thanks for the honor done him, and is well received. Tulliver rides home on the main street, "with uplifted head and free glances," wishing he would m... | [
"A Day of Reckoning",
"Mr. Tulliver was an essentially sober man,--able to take his glass and\nnot averse to it, but never exceeding the bounds of moderation. He had\nnaturally an active Hotspur temperament, which did not crave liquid\nfire to set it aglow; his impetuosity was usually equal to an exciting\noccasi... |
3,271 | 6688_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy Deane is being courted by Stephen Guest, son of the principal partner of Guest and Company. He is a handsome, apparently flippant young man. Lucy is telling him that she has important news. He guesses that it is about her dog's diet or Dr. Kenn "preaching against buckram"; but she informs him that her cousin Maggi... | [
"A Duet in Paradise",
"The well-furnished drawing-room, with the open grand piano, and the\npleasant outlook down a sloping garden to a boat-house by the side of\nthe Floss, is Mr. Deane's. The neat little lady in mourning, whose\nlight-brown ringlets are falling over the colored embroidery with\nwhich her finger... |
3,272 | 6688_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy tells Maggie how clever Stephen is and hopes she will like him. She says he is too good for her, and Maggie replies playfully that if she disapproves of him then Lucy can give him up. Lucy hopes Maggie will not be disappointed. She expects Stephen to be surprised, and she remarks on how beautiful Maggie is, even i... | [
"First Impressions",
"\"He is very clever, Maggie,\" said Lucy. She was kneeling on a\nfootstool at Maggie's feet, after placing that dark lady in the large\ncrimson-velvet chair. \"I feel sure you will like him. I hope you\nwill.\"",
"\"I shall be very difficult to please,\" said Maggie, smiling, and\nholding ... |
3,273 | 6688_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie is unable to sleep that night because of the memory of Stephen's singing and his glances. The feelings aroused by the music, the "presence of a world of love and beauty and delight," remain with her. At length Lucy comes to talk to her. She asks what Maggie thinks of Stephen, and is told that he is too self-conf... | [
"Confidential Moments",
"When Maggie went up to her bedroom that night, it appeared that she\nwas not at all inclined to undress. She set down her candle on the\nfirst table that presented itself, and began to walk up and down her\nroom, which was a large one, with a firm, regular, and rather rapid\nstep, which s... |
3,274 | 6688_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom is lodging with Bob Jakin. When Maggie goes to visit him, she is met by Bob's wife. The woman is excited to meet Maggie. She rushes off to the back of the house to find Bob, who tells Maggie that Tom is "glumpish" and sits at home staring at the fire except when he is at work. Bob believes that Tom has "a soft plac... | [
"Brother and Sister",
"Maggie was obliged to go to Tom's lodgings in the middle of the day,\nwhen he would be coming in to dinner, else she would not have found\nhim at home. He was not lodging with entire strangers. Our friend Bob\nJakin had, with Mumps's tacit consent, taken not only a wife about\neight months ... |
3,275 | 6688_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Uncle Deane calls Tom in to talk about a trip Tom is to make for the firm. He goes on to speak of the increasingly good trade opportunities, the seven years Tom has served the firm, and his general satisfaction with his nephew. Finally he tells Tom that he and Mr. Guest have decided to offer Tom a share in the business... | [
"Showing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster",
"\"And now we've settled this Newcastle business, Tom,\" said Mr. Deane,\nthat same afternoon, as they were seated in the private room at the\nBank together, \"there's another matter I want to talk to you about.\nSince you're likely to have rather a smoky, unpleasant time... |
3,276 | 6688_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Maggie is launched by Lucy into St. Ogg's society, she becomes the subject of much interest from the men and from the women who comment on her unpretentiousness . Maggie is enchanted by "this new sense of leisure" and the feeling that she is "one of the beautiful things of this spring-time." She begins to study at... | [
"Illustrating the Laws of Attraction",
"It is evident to you now that Maggie had arrived at a moment in her\nlife which must be considered by all prudent persons as a great\nopportunity for a young woman. Launched into the higher society of St. Ogg's, with a striking person, which had the advantage of being quite... |
3,277 | 6688_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning is rainy, and Lucy expects Stephen to come earlier. But instead it is Philip who comes. He and Maggie meet with inward agitation. After some "artificial conversation" Maggie tells him that Tom has consented to their being friends, but that she will soon go away "to a new situation." After he begs her t... | [
"Philip Re-enters",
"The next morning was very wet,--the sort of morning on which male\nneighbors who have no imperative occupation at home are likely to pay\ntheir fair friends an illimitable visit. The rain, which has been\nendurable enough for the walk or ride one way, is sure to become so\nheavy, and at the s... |
3,278 | 6688_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy speaks privately with Philip, who lays a plan to remove his father as an obstacle between himself and Maggie. He asks his father to come up to his studio to see some new sketches. Among them are several studies of Maggie. When Mr. Wakem discovers who they are, he questions Philip about his relationship with Maggie... | [
"Wakem in a New Light",
"Before three days had passed after the conversation you have just\noverheard between Lucy and her father she had contrived to have a\nprivate interview with Philip during a visit of Maggie's to her aunt\nGlegg. For a day and a night Philip turned over in his mind with\nrestless agitation ... |
3,279 | 6688_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the day of the bazaar Maggie helps Lucy in a booth selling "certain large plain articles." These include gentlemen's dressing gowns, which become the center of much attention. The notice thus drawn to Maggie insures that it will later be recalled that there was something "rather bold" about her. Stephen purchases no... | [
"Charity in Full-Dress",
"The culmination of Maggie's career as an admired member of society in\nSt. Ogg's was certainly the day of the bazaar, when her simple noble\nbeauty, clad in a white muslin of some soft-floating kind, which I\nsuspect must have come from the stores of aunt Pullet's wardrobe,\nappeared wit... |
3,280 | 6688_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | There is a dance at Park House, Stephen's home. Maggie at first refuses to dance, but at length the music persuades her, even though her partner is "the horrible young Torry." Stephen has not asked her to dance, for he feels Philip's attachment to her to be "another claim of honour"; but the sight of her with Torry is ... | [
"The Spell Seems Broken",
"The suite of rooms opening into each other at Park House looked duly\nbrilliant with lights and flowers and the personal splendors of\nsixteen couples, with attendant parents and guardians. The focus of\nbrilliancy was the long drawing-room, where the dancing went forward,\nunder the in... |
3,281 | 6688_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie has spent four days with her aunt before Stephen comes to see her. She is walking with Mrs. Moss when Stephen rides up. He asks to speak to Maggie privately. They walk together into the lane, where Maggie says his coming is not gentlemanly and she will go no farther. Stephen says it's not right that she should t... | [
"In the Lane",
"Maggie had been four days at her aunt Moss's giving the early June\nsunshine quite a new brightness in the care-dimmed eyes of that\naffectionate woman, and making an epoch for her cousins great and\nsmall, who were learning her words and actions by heart, as if she had\nbeen a transient avatar of... |
3,282 | 6688_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the end of the week Maggie goes to visit aunt Pullet. A party is being held there to celebrate Tom's acquisition of the mill. Lucy comes early in order to talk to Maggie and to convince aunt Pullet that she should donate some things to Tom and his mother to make their housekeeping easier. Mrs. Pullet finally agrees ... | [
"A Family Party",
"Maggie left her good aunt Gritty at the end of the week, and went to\nGarum Firs to pay her visit to aunt Pullet according to agreement. In\nthe mean time very unexpected things had happened, and there was to be\na family party at Garum to discuss and celebrate a change in the\nfortunes of the ... |
3,283 | 6688_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie escapes Stephen by remaining at aunt Glegg's each day after her return to St. Ogg's, but she is forced to see him each evening. He has taken to dining with the Deanes, despite his resolution to keep away. Maggie is tempted by her desire for Stephen, but she will not let herself inflict pain on Lucy and Philip. B... | [
"Borne Along by the Tide",
"In less than a week Maggie was at St. Ogg's again,--outwardly in much\nthe same position as when her visit there had just begun. It was easy\nfor her to fill her mornings apart from Lucy without any obvious\neffort; for she had her promised visits to pay to her aunt Glegg, and\nit was ... |
3,284 | 6688_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie awakes from a dream that she has been on the water with Stephen and has seen the boat of St. Ogg with the Virgin seated in it. The Virgin becomes Lucy and the boatman Philip and then Tom, who rows past without looking. She calls to him, and they begin to sink. She dreams she wakes as a child, then wakes to reali... | [
"Waking",
"When Maggie was gone to sleep, Stephen, weary too with his\nunaccustomed amount of rowing, and with the intense inward life of the\nlast twelve hours, but too restless to sleep, walked and lounged about\nthe deck with his cigar far on into midnight, not seeing the dark\nwater, hardly conscious there we... |
3,285 | 6688_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie returns to the mill on the fifth day after her departure. Tom has learned from Bob Jakin that Maggie was seen with Stephen at Mudport. He fully expects the worst -- that she is not married. When Maggie comes to him for refuge, he angrily refuses to have her. He accuses her of using Philip as a screen to deceive ... | [
"The Return to the Mill",
"Between four and five o'clock on the afternoon of the fifth day from\nthat on which Stephen and Maggie had left St. Ogg's, Tom Tulliver was\nstanding on the gravel walk outside the old house at Dorlcote Mill. He\nwas master there now; he had half fulfilled his father's dying wish,\nand ... |
3,286 | 6688_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It soon becomes known that Maggie has returned, and since she is unwed, all the blame falls on her. If she had returned as Stephen's wife, the affair would have been "quite romantic," and to refuse to associate with the couple would be nonsense. But since Maggie returned unwed, it was evident that her conduct "had been... | [
"St. Ogg's Passes Judgment",
"It was soon known throughout St. Ogg's that Miss Tulliver was come back; she had not, then, eloped in order to be married to Mr. Stephen Guest,--at all events, Mr. Stephen Guest had not married her; which came to the same thing, so far as her culpability was concerned. We judge other... |
3,287 | 6688_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aunt Glegg reproves Tom for "admitting the worst of his sister until he was compelled." Mr. Glegg, in his sympathy for Lucy, is set completely against Maggie; and Mrs. Pullet does not know how to act; but Mrs. Glegg stands firmly by her kin. She offers to take Maggie in and shelter her, although she still threatens to ... | [
"Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us",
"When Maggie was at home again, her mother brought her news of an\nunexpected line of conduct in aunt Glegg. As long as Maggie had not\nbeen heard of, Mrs. Glegg had half closed her shutters and drawn down\nher blinds. She felt assured that Maggie was... |
3,288 | 6688_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Kenn has been unable to find any position for Maggie, and he finally decides that the only hope is for him to employ her himself. Most of his parishioners are set against her, and the few who are not are too timid to make their views public. Dr. Kenn takes Maggie on as governess to his children. Dr. Kenn, "exemplar... | [
"Maggie and Lucy",
"By the end of the week Dr. Kenn had made up his mind that there was\nonly one way in which he could secure to Maggie a suitable living at\nSt. Ogg's. Even with his twenty years' experience as a parish priest,\nhe was aghast at the obstinate continuance of imputations against her\nin the face o... |
3,289 | 6688_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rain has fallen continuously for two days, and the old men are reminded of the weather which preceded the great floods of sixty years before. It is past midnight and raining heavily as Maggie sits alone in her room "battling with the old shadowy enemies." Two days earlier, Dr. Kenn was forced to release her from her po... | [
"The Last Conflict",
"In the second week of September, Maggie was again sitting in her\nlonely room, battling with the old shadowy enemies that were forever\nslain and rising again. It was past midnight, and the rain was beating\nheavily against the window, driven with fitful force by the rushing,\nloud-moaning w... |
3,290 | 2258_prologue | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Someone steps out on the stage and delivers a speech. Who is this mysterious figure? The truth is: we're not sure. Some scholars call him the "Chorus," while others stick with the super original name "Prologue" . Whatever his name, he comes out on stage and gives us in the audience the 411 on what they're about to see.... | [
"I Come no more to make you laugh, Things now,\n That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow,\n Sad, high, and working, full of State and Woe:\n Such Noble Scoenes, as draw the Eye to flow\n We now present. Those that can Pitty, heere\n May (if they thinke it well) let fall a Teare,\n The Subiect will deserue it... |
3,291 | 2258_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Norfolk, Buckingham, and Abergavenny all greet one another. Buckingham asks Norfolk how he's been since they last saw each other in France. Last time they hung out, Buckingham had a fever and had to stay in his tent while everyone else was partying. The king of England and the king of France put on a show for everyone.... | [
"Enter the Duke of Norfolke at one doore. At the other, the Duke of\nBuckingham, and the Lord Aburgauenny.",
"Buckingham. Good morrow, and well met. How haue ye done\nSince last we saw in France?\nNorf. I thanke your Grace:\nHealthfull, and euer since a fresh Admirer\nOf what I saw there",
"Buck. An vntimely Ag... |
3,292 | 2258_act_1,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | King Henry, Wolsey, and Sir Thomas Lovell enter. Henry thanks Wolsey for doing such a good job catching the bad guys, and he asks to speak to Buckingham's estate manager to get the inside scoop about what's happening with his land. Just then, Queen Katherine enters, kneels, and then decides to stay kneeling in order to... | [
"Cornets. Enter King Henry, leaning on the Cardinals shoulder, the\nNobles,\n and Sir Thomas Louell: the Cardinall places himselfe vnder the\n Kings feete\n on his right side.",
"King. My life it selfe, and the best heart of it,\n Thankes you for this great care: I stood i'th' leuell\n Of a full-ch... |
3,293 | 2258_act_1,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lord Chamberlain and Lord Sands talk about--what else?--what happened on the nobles' trip to France, and about what's taken place since. Chamberlain thinks it's ridiculous how men are suddenly wearing French clothes and practicing French customs, now that they've seen how the French do things. Then Lovell comes over to... | [
"L.Ch. Is't possible the spels of France should iuggle\nMen into such strange mysteries?\nL.San. New customes,\n Though they be neuer so ridiculous,\n (Nay let 'em be vnmanly) yet are follow'd",
"L.Ch. As farre as I see, all the good our English\n Haue got by the late Voyage, is but meerely\n A fit or... |
3,294 | 2258_act_1,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Over in the dinner hall at Wolsey's pad, Guildford welcomes everyone. Lord Chamberlain, Sands, and Lovell are late, but Sands makes up for it by complimenting the gathering. Chamberlain tells Sands to sit between Anne Bullen and another lady. You don't need to tell him twice: in fact, he's so happy to be sitting next t... | [
"Hoboies. A small Table vnder a State for the Cardinall, a longer\nTable for\nthe Guests. Then Enter Anne Bullen, and diuers other Ladies, &\nGentlemen,\n as Guests at one Doore; at an other Doore enter Sir Henry\n Guilford.",
"S.Hen.Guilf. Ladyes,\n A generall welcome from his Grace\n Salutes ye all;... |
3,295 | 2258_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two guys meet on a street, rushing. Why so fast? Guy #2 is on his way to Buckingham's trial, but Guy #1 has just come from there and says it's finished already. Well, that was fast. What happened? Guy # 1 explains the trial: Buckingham pled not guilty, but he was found guilty and sentenced to death. It didn't matter th... | [
"Enter two Gentlemen at seuerall Doores.",
"1. Whether away so fast?\n2. O, God saue ye:\nEu'n to the Hall, to heare what shall become\nOf the great Duke of Buckingham",
"1. Ile saue you\nThat labour Sir. All's now done but the Ceremony\nOf bringing backe the Prisoner",
"2. Were you there ?\n1. Yes indeed was... |
3,296 | 2258_act_2,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mail call: Lord Chamberlain reads a letter about his horses. It turns out Wolsey took a bunch of them, claiming they were for the king. Chamberlain might have wanted them and all, but he doesn't have them anymore. Lord Chamberlain thinks about this. He decides that Wolsey will end up taking everything he has and then s... | [
"Enter Lord Chamberlaine, reading this Letter.",
"My Lord, the Horses your Lordship sent for, with all the\ncare I had, I saw well chosen, ridden, and furnish'd.\nThey were young and handsome, and of the best breed in the\nNorth. When they were ready to set out for London, a man\nof my Lord Cardinalls, by Commiss... |
3,297 | 2258_act_2,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne and an Old Lady dish about the king leaving his wife. Anne thinks the whole thing is really sad; she points out that Katherine has lived a good life and has always been above reproach, but it doesn't matter now: she's on the losing end of this one. Anne even goes as far to say that it's better to be poor than to b... | [
"Enter Anne Bullen, and an old Lady.",
"An. Not for that neither; here's the pang that pinches.\nHis Highnesse, hauing liu'd so long with her, and she\nSo good a Lady, that no Tongue could euer\nPronounce dishonour of her; by my life,\n She neuer knew harme-doing: Oh, now after\n So many courses... |
3,298 | 2258_act_2,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Over at Blackfriars, it's a formal affair with a bunch of pomp and circumstance. Everyone's gathered to hear the report from the Pope's rep read. Wolsey shuts everyone up so they can hear it. Henry doesn't think that's necessary, since the report has already been read, but Wolsey wants to carry on anyway. Katherine com... | [
"Trumpets, Sennet, and Cornets. Enter two Vergers, with short\nsiluer\nwands; next them two Scribes in the habite of Doctors; after them,\n the\n Bishop of Canterbury alone; after him, the Bishops of Lincolne,\n Ely,\n Rochester, and S[aint]. Asaph: Next them, with some small\n distance,\n followe... |
3,299 | 2258_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Katherine is in her room listening to music when Wolsey arrives with Campeius and asks to speak with her in private. No thanks, Katherine replies. She says she's got nothing to hide, so she's happy to talk there, in front of her servants. Wolsey assures Katherine that they're just there to get her thoughts on her split... | [
"Enter Queene and her Women as at worke.",
"Queen. Take thy Lute wench,\n My Soule growes sad with troubles,\n Sing, and disperse 'em if thou canst: leaue working.",
"SONG.",
"Orpheus with his Lute made Trees,\n And the Mountaine tops that freeze,\n Bow themselues when he did sing.\n To his Mus... |
3,300 | 2258_act_3,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey, and Lord Chamberlain have a little meeting about Wolsey: he's become a problem, and they know it. They're just not sure what to do about it. Norfolk wants to present a united front. He thinks that Wolsey can't deny all their complaints if they join up. Lord Chamberlain doesn't know if that wil... | [
"Enter the Duke of Norfolke, Duke of Suffolke, Lord Surrey, and\nLord\nChamberlaine.",
"Norf. If you will now vnite in your Complaints,\n And force them with a Constancy, the Cardinall\n Cannot stand vnder them. If you omit\n The offer of this time, I cannot promise,\n But that you shall sustaine moe ... |
3,301 | 2258_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Out on the streets, the two gents meet again. This time, they're waiting to see Anne pass by. It's her coronation day , and they can't wait to see their new queen. This is way better than the last time they met , and they're glad to meet on a happier occasion. Guy #1 reminds the other guy that Anne isn't the only one w... | [
"Enter two Gentlemen, meeting one another.",
"1 Y'are well met once againe",
"2 So are you",
"1 You come to take your stand heere, and behold\nThe Lady Anne, passe from her Corronation",
"2 'Tis all my businesse. At our last encounter,\n The Duke of Buckingham came from his Triall",
"1 'Tis very true. Bu... |
3,302 | 2258_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Over at Katherine's pad, her usher Griffith tells her about the death of Cardinal Wolsey. Once he was arrested, he got sick and died. Katherine is not one to hold a grudge, so she says she'll speak kindly of him, but she does note that his ambition caused major problems for England. Plus, he was just a bad example of a... | [
"Enter Katherine Dowager, sicke, lead betweene Griffith, her\nGentleman\nVsher, and Patience her Woman.",
"Grif. How do's your Grace?\nKath. O Griffith, sicke to death:\nMy Legges like loaden Branches bow to'th' Earth,\n Willing to leaue their burthen: Reach a Chaire,\n So now (me thinkes) I feele a little ea... |
3,303 | 2258_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gardiner runs into Lovell, who's running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Why the rush? Lovell is on his way to help, because Anne is in labor. That's all very well, says Gardiner, but he's got more pressing issues: he's worried about the kingdom. He doesn't think they're safe until Anne, Cranmer, and Cromw... | [
"Enter Gardiner Bishop of Winchester, a Page with a Torch before\nhim, met\nby Sir Thomas Louell.",
"Gard. It's one a clocke Boy, is't not",
"Boy. It hath strooke",
"Gard. These should be houres for necessities,\n Not for delights: Times to repayre our Nature\n With comforting repose, and not for vs\n ... |
3,304 | 2258_act_5,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rushing to the council meeting, Cranmer hopes he's not too late. He's about to go into the Council Chamber when a keeper stops him. Dr. Butts, the king's doctor, enters and remarks that there must be malice in the air. Then he leaves. Cranmer says to himself that it's strange that he--one of the council member--has to ... | [
"Enter Cranmer, Archbyshop of Canterbury.",
"Cran. I hope I am not too late, and yet the Gentleman\nThat was sent to me from the Councell, pray'd me\nTo make great hast. All fast? What meanes this? Hoa?\nWho waites there? Sure you know me?\nEnter Keeper.",
"Keep. Yes, my Lord:\nBut yet I cannot helpe you",
"C... |
3,305 | 2258_act_5,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the Council meeting, the lords finally let Cranmer in--after they've discussed why they're meeting. The Lord Chancellor informs Cranmer that he's heard some nasty rumors around town about the Archbishop. Gardiner joins in on the dog pile. The rumors are that Cranmer is committing heresy. Gasp--that's pretty bad. Whe... | [
"Noyse and Tumult within: Enter Porter and his man.",
"Port. You'l leaue your noyse anon ye Rascals: doe\nyou take the Court for Parish Garden: ye rude Slaues,\n leaue your gaping",
"Within. Good M[aster]. Porter I belong to th' Larder",
"Port. Belong to th' Gallowes, and be hang'd ye Rogue:\n Is this a... |
3,306 | 2258_act_5,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the palace yard, a group gathers for the baby's christening. A Porter is trying to stop people from shouting and make it a civilized bash. The Porter argues with various peeps trying to get in and see more. He's got to hold the gate so that no one can enter who's not supposed to be there. The people waiting to see t... | [
"Enter Trumpets sounding: Then two Aldermen, L[ord]. Maior,\n Garter,\n Cranmer, Duke of Norfolke with his Marshals Staffe, Duke of\n Suffolke, two\n Noblemen, bearing great standing Bowles for the Christening\n Guifts: Then\n foure Noblemen bearing a Canopy, vnder which the Dutchesse ... |
3,290 | 2258_prologue;_act_i,_scene_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The figure of the Prologue comes on stage and explains that what follows is a serious play. The events to come will draw the audience's pity, bringing some to tears, but there will be much truth told, as well. Those hoping for a bawdy humorous play will be disappointed. The Prologue asks the audience to imagine that th... | [
"I Come no more to make you laugh, Things now,\n That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow,\n Sad, high, and working, full of State and Woe:\n Such Noble Scoenes, as draw the Eye to flow\n We now present. Those that can Pitty, heere\n May (if they thinke it well) let fall a Teare,\n The Subiect will deserue it... |
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