Glegg, Mr.

A retired wool-stapler, a kind, stingy, white-haired old gentleman. "Mr. Glegg, having retired from active business as a wool-stapler, for the purpose of enjoying himself through the rest of his life, had found this last occupation so much more severe than his business, that he had been driven into amateur hard labour as a dissipation, and habitually relaxed by doing the work of two ordinary gardeners ... Now good Mr. Glegg himself was stingy in the most amiable manner: his neighbours called him "near", which always means that the person in question is a lovable skinflint. If you expressed a preference for cheese-parings, Mr. Glegg would remember to save them for you, with a good-natured delight in gratifying your palate, and he was given to pet all animals which required no appreciable keep. There was no humbug or hypocrisy about Mr. Glegg." In his good-humoured way he feels a sincere pity for the Tulliver family, and eventually he lends Tom Tulliver a little money to trade with.

<em>The Mill on the Floss</em>

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