
Tulliver both agree this is the honorable thing to do, so everyone does their best to help economize. Wakem’s manager, but is constantly depressed and focused only on saving enough of his wages to pay back the creditors that he still owes. Tulliver is recovered enough to attend to business, so he acts as Mr. Chapter II - The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns Tom Tulliver's spirituality was adrift, lost in the pursuit of common sense.

Their kin were not to be left out of wills, but reproached severely if they were not a credit to the family. The Dodsons were religious out of habit and tradition only and they strove to be honest and rich. The narrator takes a break from the story’s action to present an interlude describing the contrast between the ruins of villages on the Rhone and of castles on the Rhine, and how the former feels small and oppressive in the way that the traditions of the older generation of Dodsons and Tullivers were oppressive to Maggie and Tom.

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