From him she learns that Tom’s rabbits, that she was supposed to take care of, have all died because she forgot to feed them. Tulliver to pick up Tom from school, runs outside and talks to Luke, the head miller. Maggie, impatient with her mother for not letting her go with Mr.

Tulliver laments that if she were a boy, Maggie would go far. But she is disgraced and belittled by Mr. Riley engravings in 'History of the Devil', a book she's reading. She quickly illustrates how clever she is, showing Mr. Hearing her beloved brother's name, Maggie interrupts the conversation. Riley says he will recommend Tom to Stelling. Riley strongly recommends he go to Reverend Stelling, who graduated from Oxford and wants to keep teaching even with his duties to his parish, so wants to take on a few pupils.

Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom Tulliver complains about how difficult Maggie is in particular, the girl's hair won't hold a proper curl. Riley for advice on where to send Tom to school, but worries that even with a good education, he’s not smart enough to ever be truly intelligent, as opposed to Tom’s clever sister Maggie. Tulliver explains to his wife Bessy that he is taking their son, Tom, out of his day school to go to boarding school because he wants him to be something better than a miller or a farmer. Tullier, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about TomĪt Dorlcote Mill, Mr. Tulliver's actions on the very afternoon she was dreaming of. When she wakes, she resumes the story of Mr.

The narrator, asleep in her chair, dreams of Dorlcote Mill, and in doing so describes the town of St Ogg’s along the Floss and a little girl standing at the edge of the water by the mill thirty years ago. Buy Study Guide Chapter I - Outside Dorlcote Mill

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