The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (best beach reads of all time .txt) 📕

rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

Dorlcote Mill was rebuilt. And Dorlcote churchyard⁠—where the brick grave that held a father whom we know, was found with the stone laid prostrate upon it after the flood⁠—had recovered all its grassy order and decent quiet.

Near that brick grave there was a tomb erected, very soon after the flood, for two bodies that were found in close embrace; and it was visited at different moments by two men who both felt that their keenest joy and keenest sorrow were forever buried there.

One of them visited the tomb again with a sweet face beside him; but that was years after.

The other was always solitary. His great companionship was among the trees of the Red Deeps, where the buried joy seemed still to hover, like a revisiting spirit.

The tomb bore the names of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, and below the names it was written⁠—

“In their death they were not divided.”

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The Mill on the Floss
was published in 1860 by
George Eliot.

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