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The Mill on the Floss, Chapter 9

Visit to Aunt and Uncle Pullet at Garum Firs, but not before Mr. Rappit, the hairdresser, was given the opportunity to say, “‘See here! tut, tut, tut!’ in a tone of mingled disgust and pity,” at the sight of Maggie’s” “jagged locks.”

Tom, “peeping through the bars of a gate and making minatory gestures with his small forefinger while he scolded the sheep with an inarticulate burr, intended to strike terror into their astonished minds;” at first seems simply amusing to me. Now I wonder if this is evidence of his character.

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