All 6 Uses of
compassion
in
The Mill on the Floss
- This was part of Bessy's weakness that stirred Mrs. Glegg's sisterly compassion: Bessy went far too well dressed, considering; and she was too proud to dress her child in the good clothing her sister Glegg gave her from the primeval strata of her wardrobe; it was a sin and a shame to buy anything to dress that child, if it wasn't a pair of shoes.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- "Well, my dears," said aunt Pullet, in a compassionate voice, "you grow wonderful fast.†
Chpt 1.7
- You've got enough o' gells, Gritty," he added, in a tone half compassionate, half reproachful.†
Chpt 1.8
- "I don't want to make the worst of you, Bessy," said Mrs. Pullet, compassionately, "for I doubt you'll have trouble enough without that; and your husband's got that poor sister and her children hanging on him,—and so given to lawing, they say.†
Chpt 1.9
- It makes you look very small, though you can't see yourself," said Mrs. Glegg, in a tone of energetic compassion.†
Chpt 1.12
- She quarrelled with Mr. Glegg, whose kindness, flowing entirely into compassion for Lucy, made him as hard in his judgment of Maggie as Mr. Deane himself was; and fuming against her sister Tulliver because she did not at once come to her for advice and help, shut herself up in her own room with Baxter's "Saints' Rest" from morning till night, denying herself to all visitors, till Mr. Glegg brought from Mr. Deane the news of Stephen's letter.†
Chpt 7.3
Definition:
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(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help