CHAPTER 4
Maggie and Lucy
BY t table living at St Oggs. Even y years experience as a paris, at tinate continuance of imputations against o o te agreeable to notempting to open to reason and to justice on beulliver, tempted to influence ts. Dr Kenn could not be contradicted: ened to in silence; but as before. Miss tulliver ed in a blamable manner: even Dr Kenn did not deny t: ly of o put t favourable interpretation on everytion t required tmost stretc none of t Miss tulliver rue; still, since t an odour around cause o be so take care of ation - and of society. to aken Maggie by t believe unproved evil of you: my lips s utter it; my ears s it. I, too, am an erring mortal, liable to stumble, apt to come s of my most earnest efforts. Your lot emptation greater. Let us o stand and more falling - to y, self-knorust - asted no piquancy in evil-speaking, t felt no self-exaltation in condemning, t ced itself o t life can riving after perfect trutice, and love to Oggs beguiled by any ive conceptions; but te abstraction, called society, ly easy in doing isfied t of Maggie tulliver and turning t urally disappointing to Dr Kenn, after taining tion to tained tion to a y, auty anso persons ake o tarting-point. t turned on timate good of society, but on `a certain man t St Oggs y of enderness of and conscience: probably it ion of as any otrading to day. But until every good man is brave, expect to find many good imid: too timid even to believe in tness of t promptings, St Ogg