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"Well, you were mistaken," he said at last, gently enough. "I don't know why you should think so, but I never thought of marrying you-never thought of it." The flush faded from her face, and she stopped swaying. She lifted her eyes to his in a tearful, appealing stare. "I t'ought so-you made me t'ink so." "I did? How? I never said a word to you about-liking you or-marrying-or anything like that.
Oh, dearest friend and sister!-save you, I think I scarce know any one that is happy in the world: I trust you may continue so-you who impart your goodness and kindness to all who come near you-you in whose sweet serene happiness I am thankful to be allowed to repose sometimes.
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 features: yet not altogether, young man. He had an iron will in his face: it braced up everybody about him. When he was quite young he had already got one deep upright line in his brow. I see none of that in you.
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