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Page 58
... pain him : what he required was that she should be as fully aware as she would have been of a locked hand - cuff , that her inclina- tion was , helpless to decide anything in contradiction with his resolve . However much of vacillating ...
... pain him : what he required was that she should be as fully aware as she would have been of a locked hand - cuff , that her inclina- tion was , helpless to decide anything in contradiction with his resolve . However much of vacillating ...
Page 64
... pain before she could consider whether it were fiction or truth ; and further to hinder her power of resistance came the sudden perception , how very slight how little were the grounds of her faith in Deronda she knew of his life- how ...
... pain before she could consider whether it were fiction or truth ; and further to hinder her power of resistance came the sudden perception , how very slight how little were the grounds of her faith in Deronda she knew of his life- how ...
Page 86
... painful place in her consciousness : instinct- ively she felt that the separation would be from him too , and in the prospective vision of herself as a solitary , dubiously regarded woman , she felt some tingling bash- fulness at the ...
... painful place in her consciousness : instinct- ively she felt that the separation would be from him too , and in the prospective vision of herself as a solitary , dubiously regarded woman , she felt some tingling bash- fulness at the ...
Page 88
... painful for her to behold . She and Grandcourt had just slack- ened their pace to a walk ; he being on the outer side was the nearer to the unwelcome vision , and Gwendolen had not presence of mind to do anything but glance away from ...
... painful for her to behold . She and Grandcourt had just slack- ened their pace to a walk ; he being on the outer side was the nearer to the unwelcome vision , and Gwendolen had not presence of mind to do anything but glance away from ...
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... pain . He felt himself holding a crowd of words imprisoned within his lips , as if the letting them escape would be a violation of awe before the mysteries of our human lot . The thought that urged itself foremost was- " Confess ...
... pain . He felt himself holding a crowd of words imprisoned within his lips , as if the letting them escape would be a violation of awe before the mysteries of our human lot . The thought that urged itself foremost was- " Confess ...
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Page 244 - I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends ; And, as my fortune ripens with thy love, It shall be still thy true love's recompense : My heart this covenant makes, my hand thus seals it.
Page 351 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Page 207 - All fixed on me their stony eyes, That in the Moon did glitter. The pang, the curse, with which they died, Had never passed away : I could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor turn them up to pray.
Page 170 - The effect of my education can never be done away with. The Christian sympathies in which my mind was reared can never die out of me," said Deronda, with increasing tenacity of tone. " But I consider it my duty — it is the impulse of my feeling — to identify myself, as far as possible, with my hereditary people, and if I can see any work to be done for them that I can give my soul and hand to I shall choose to do it.
Page 114 - ... the blending of a complete personal love in one current with a larger duty...
Page 49 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 32 - If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Page 262 - Ah, you argue and you look forward — you are' Daniel Charisi's grandson," said Kalonymos, adding a benediction in Hebrew. With that they parted ; and almost as soon as Deronda was in London, the aged man was again on shipboard, greeting the friendly stars without any eager curiosity. CHAPTER LXI.
Page 188 - Turn your fear into a safeguard. Keep your dread fixed on the idea of increasing that remorse which is so bitter to you. Fixed meditation may do a great deal towards defining our longing or dread. We are not always in a state of strong emotion, and when we are calm we can use our memories and gradually change the bias of our fear, as we do our tastes. Take your fear as a safeguard.
Page 172 - I desire a grandson who shall have a true Jewish heart. Every Jew should rear his family as if he hoped that a Deliverer might spring from it.'" In uttering these last sentences the Princess narrowed her eyes, waved her head up and down, and spoke slowly with a new kind of chest-voice, as if she were quoting unwillingly.