Daniel Deronda, Volume 4

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W. Blackwood and Sons, 1876 - 288 pagine
 

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Pagina 158 - eyes on her poor beseeching face and said, " I believe that you may become worthier than you have ever yet been—worthy to lead a life that may be a blessing, No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. You
Pagina 134 - with which they died, Had never passed away: I could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor lift them up to pray.
Pagina 97 - Deronda did not know how he got out of the room. He felt an older man. All his boyish yearnings and anxieties about his mother had vanished. He had gone through a tragic experience which must for ever solemnise his life, and deepen the significance of the acts by which he bound himself to others.
Pagina 90 - grandfather's trust which you accepted and did not fulfil —what you call his yoke—is the expression of something stronger, with deeper, farther-spreading roots, knit into the foundations of sacredness for all men. You renounced me—you still banish me—as a son "—there was an involuntary movement of indignation in
Pagina 19 - don't know now—what you will feel towards me. I have not the foolish notion that you can love me merely because I am your mother, when you have never seen or heard of me all your life. But I thought I chose something better for you than being with me. I did not think that
Pagina 36 - it would be for your good, and the finest thing for you. A great singer and actress is a queen, but she gives no royalty to her son.—All that happened at Naples. And afterwards I made Sir Hugo the trustee of your fortune. That is what I did ; and I
Pagina 200 - in the wrong place would have hindered his imagination from getting to Beyrout: he had been used to unite restless travel with punctilious observation. But Deronda's last sentence answered its purpose. "So — you would perhaps have been such a man as he if your education had not hindered; for you are like him in
Pagina 100 - of love to him personally; he had won her by the rank and luxuries he had to give her, and these she had got: he had fulfilled his side of the contract. And Gwendolen, we know, was thoroughly aware of the situation. She could not excuse herself by saying that there
Pagina 146 - dead face is there, and I cannot bear it." Suddenly loosing Deronda's hand, she started up, stretching her arms to their full length upward, and said with a sort of moan— " I have been a cruel woman! What can / do but cry for help ? / am sinking. Die—die—you are forsaken—go down, go down into darkness. Forsaken—no

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