However, both children like playing with Lucy Deane, their sweet and pretty cousin. Glegg, who constantly criticizes them for being “naughty” and predicts they will come to a bad end. Maggie and Tom particularly dislike the bad-tempered Mrs. Tulliver’s sisters come for a visit as well. Maggie apologizes profusely and is very distressed at Tom’s anger, so he eventually forgives her. He points out that he carefully saved up his money to buy her a gift, whereas she carelessly forgot to feed the rabbits and let them die. However, upon his return Tom is angry with her because she failed to take care of his rabbits in his absence. Maggie is delighted when Tom comes home from school for a visit, since she adores her older brother. Riley, decides to send Tom to study with Mr. On the recommendation of a family friend, Mr. Tulliver admits that he never had much education himself, but wants to send Tom to school in the hopes that his son will go into business. The little girl, it is later revealed, is Maggie Tulliver. The unnamed narrator, whose gender is never specified, dreams of Dorlcote Mill, the Tulliver family’s ancestral home, and sees a little girl playing outside. The Mill on the Floss centers on the childhood and young adulthood of Maggie and Tom Tulliver, two siblings growing up in the fictional town of St.
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