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George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss
Table of Contents
BOOK FIRST. BOY AND GIRL
Chapter I. Outside Dorlcote Mill
Chapter II. Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom
Chapter III. Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom
Chapter IV. Tom Is Expected
Chapter V. Tom Comes Home
Chapter VI. The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming
Chapter VII. Enter the Aunts and Uncles
Chapter VIII. Mr. Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side
Chapter IX. To Garum Firs
Chapter X. Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected
Chapter XI. Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow
Chapter XII. Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home
Chapter XIII. Mr. Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life
BOOK SECOND. SCHOOL-TIME
Chapter I. Tom’s “First Half”
Chapter II. The Christmas Holidays
Chapter III. The New Schoolfellow
Chapter IV “The Young Idea”
Chapter V. Maggie’s Second Visit
Chapter VI. A Love-Scene
Chapter VII. The Golden Gates Are Passed
BOOK THIRD. THE DOWNFALL
Chapter I. What Had Happened at Home
Chapter II. Mrs. Tulliver’s Teraphim, or Household Gods
Chapter III. The Family Council
Chapter IV. A Vanishing Gleam
Chapter V. Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster
Chapter VI. Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-Knife
Chapter VII. How a Hen Takes to Stratagem
Chapter VIII. Daylight on the Wreck
Chapter IX. An Item Added to the Family Register
BOOK FOURTH. THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION
Chapter I. A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet
Chapter II. The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns
Chapter III. A Voice from the Past
BOOK FIFTH. WHEAT AND TARES
Chapter I. In the Red Deeps
Chapter II. Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb
Chapter III. The Wavering Balance
Chapter IV. Another Love-Scene
Chapter V. The Cloven Tree
Chapter VI. The Hard-Won Triumph
Chapter VII. A Day of Reckoning
BOOK SIXTH. THE GREAT TEMPTATION
Chapter I. A Duet in Paradise
Chapter II. First Impressions
Chapter III. Confidential Moments
Chapter IV. Brother and Sister
Chapter V. Showing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster
Chapter VI. Illustrating the Laws of Attraction
Chapter VII. Philip Re-enters
Chapter VIII. Wakem in a New Light
Chapter IX. Charity in Full-Dress
Chapter X. The Spell Seems Broken
Chapter XI. In the Lane
Chapter XII. A Family Party
Chapter XIII. Borne Along by the Tide
Chapter XIV. Waking
BOOK SEVENTH. THE FINAL RESCUE
Chapter I. The Return to the Mill
Chapter II. St. Ogg’s Passes Judgment
Chapter III. Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us
Chapter IV. Maggie and Lucy
Chapter V. The Last Conflict
Conclusion
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George Eliot
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The entrance of supper opportunely adjourned this difficulty, and relieved Mr. Riley from the labour of suggesting some solution or compromise—a labour which he would otherwise doubtless have undertaken; for, as you perceive, he was a man of very obliging manners. And he had really given himself the trouble of recommending Mr. Stelling to his friend Tulliver without any positive expectation of a solid, definite advantage resulting to himself, notwithstanding the subtle indications to the contrary which might have misled a too sagacious observer. For there is nothing more widely misleading than sagacity if it happens to get on a wrong scent; and sagacity, persuaded that men usually act and speak from distinct motives, with a consciously proposed end in view, is certain to waste its energies on imaginary game.
Plotting covetousness and deliberate contrivance, in order to compass a selfish end, are nowhere abundant but in the world of the dramatist: they demand too intense a mental action for many of our fellow-parishioners to be guilty of them. It is easy enough to spoil the lives of our neighbours without taking so much trouble; we can do it by lazy acquiescence and lazy omission, by trivial falsities for which we hardly know a reason, by small frauds neutralised by small extravagances, by maladroit flatteries, and clumsily improvised insinuations. We live from hand to mouth, most of us, with a small family of immediate desires; we do little else than snatch a morsel to satisfy the hungry brood, rarely thinking of seed-corn or the next year’s crop.
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