felt in
them. Her brother found them less grievous than his preconceptions, and
said gently, "Wait for calm, Mirah, and then tell me all,"--putting off
her hat and laying his hands tenderly on her head. She felt the
soothing influence, and in a few minutes told him as exactly as she
could all that had happened.

"He will not come to-morrow," said Mordecai. Neither of them said to
the other what they both thought, namely, that he might watch for
Mirah's outgoings and beg from her again.

"Seest thou," he presently added, "our lot is the lot of Israel. The
grief and the glory are mingled as the smoke and the flame. It is
because we children have inherited the good that we feel the evil.
These things are wedded for us, as our father was wedded to our mother."

The surroundings were of Brompton, but the voice might have come from a
Rabbi transmitting the sentences of an elder time to be registered in
_Babli_--by which (to our ears) affectionate-sounding diminutive is
meant the voluminous Babylonian Talmud. "The Omnipresent," said a
Rabbi, "is occupied in making marriages." The levity of the saying lies
in the ear of him who hears it; for by marriages the speaker meant all
the wondrous combinations of the universe whose issue makes our good
and evil.

CHAPTER LXIII.

"Moses, trotz seiner Bafeindung der Kunst, dennoch selber ein grosser
Kuenstler war und den wahren Kuenstlergeist besass. Nur war dieser
Kuenstlergeist bei ihm, wie bei seinen aegyptischen Landsleuteu, nurauf
das Colossale und Unverwustliche gerichtet. Aber nicht vie die
Aegypter formirte er seine Kunstwerke aus Backstem und Granit, sondern
er baute Menchen-pyramiden, er meisselte Menschen Obelisken, ernahm
einen armen Hirtenstamm und Schuf daraus ein Volk, das ebenfalls den
Jahrhahunderten, trotzen sollte * * * er Schuf Israel."--HEINE:
_Gestandnisse_.

Imagine the difference in Deronda's state of mind when he left England
and when he returned to it. He had set out for Genoa in total
uncertainty how far the actual bent of his wishes and affections would
be encouraged--how far the claims revealed to him might draw him into
new paths, far away from the tracks his thoughts had lately been
pursuing with a consent of desire which uncertainty made dangerous. He
came back with something like a discovered charter warranting the
inherited right that his ambition had begun to yearn for: he came back
with what was better