Daniel Deronda

I am going to the East to become better acquainted with the condition of my race in various countries there,” said Deronda, gently—anxious to be as explanatory as he could on what was the impersonal part of their separateness from each other.

Twin arcs of Gwendolen's moral crisis and Deronda's Jewish vocation converge then separate without forced merger, so plot scores 90.

Gwendolen had replied that she cared for the excitement of play, not the winnings. On that supposition the present moment ought to have made the flood-tide in her eager experience of gambling.

Gwendolen, Deronda, Mirah, and Grandcourt form Eliot's most psychologically exact late cast — boredom, vocation, rescue, and cold will, so cast scores 91.

Deronda ended by going to the end of the small table, at right angles to Gwendolen’s position, but before he could speak she had turned on him no smile, but such an appealing look of sadness.

Eight-book Victorian scale slows through drawing-room and synagogue inquiry; gambling and drowning scenes spike amid deliberate moral pacing, so pace scores 82.

Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the secret of form or expression which gave the dynamic quality to her glance? Was the good or the evil genius dominant in those beams?

Question-cascade, river meditations, and vocation speech show late Eliot at full analytic and lyrical power, so prose scores 93.

Mirah Lapidoth. I am come a long way, all the way from Prague by myself. I made my escape. I ran away from dreadful things. I came to find my mother and brother in London.

Leubronn, Offendene, London Jewry, and the imagined East hold English society and diasporic Jewish life in one frame, so world scores 88.

Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the secret of form or expression which gave the dynamic quality to her glance? Was the good or the evil genius dominant in those beams? Probably the evil; else why was the effect that of unrest rather than of undisturbed charm?

The roulette-table gaze locks character, theme, and erotic-moral tension in the first sentences, so hook scores 92.

I shall call myself a Jew,” said Deronda, deliberately, becoming slightly paler under the piercing eyes of his questioner. “But I will not say that I shall profess to believe exactly as my fathers have believed.

Treating Jewish national restoration as a serious vocation plot is rare structural and political ambition for 1876 English fiction, so innov scores 94.

It is better—it shall be better with me because I have known you. GWENDOLEN GRANDCOURT. The preparations for the departure of all three to the East began at once.

Deronda leaves Eastward; Gwendolen accepts loss as moral improvement — separation as ethical resolution rather than romantic reunion, so ending scores 89.