Maggie is nine years old and Tom is thirteen when the story begins and Maggie, in spite of having a fair, biddable mother who was part of a successful family, is dark and uncooperative and restless, her soul at times angry at the expectations placed upon her, yet also yearning for love and acceptance. Maggie and her brother, Tom, are part of the Tulliver family, her father owning and running the mill that lies along the river Floss. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?” “We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops.
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