Book VII: The Final Rescue

1. The Return to the Mill
2. St. Ogg's Passes Judgment
3. Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us
4. Maggie and Lucy
5. The Last Conflict





Book I

_Boy and Girl_




Chapter I

Outside Dorlcote Mill


A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green
banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its
passage with an impetuous embrace. On this mighty tide the black
ships--laden with the fresh-scented fir-planks, with rounded sacks of
oil-bearing seed, or with the dark glitter of coal--are borne along to
the town of St. Ogg's, which shows its aged, fluted red roofs and the