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PHILLIP: I have made you sad.
MAGGIE: It’s so beautiful.
PHILLIP: You inspire me. What is it, Maggie? Don’t you like being the Tenth Muse?
MAGGIE: Phillip, I never felt I was right in giving way about seeing you. Though this year has been so precious to me. But now the fear comes upon me strongly again that it will lead to evil.
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TOM: Then if you can do nothing, submit to those that can.
MAGGIE: I will submit to what I feel to be right. I will even submit to what is unreasonable from my father. But I will not submit to it from you.
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TOM: Very well. You need say no more to show me what a gulf there is between us. Let us remember that in future and be silent.
Helen Edmundson, The Mill on the Floss, Nick Hern Books, 1994, pp. 49-52.
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