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Daniel Deronda

CHAPTER V
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"I like to differ from everybody.

I think it is so stupid to agree.

That is the worst of writing your opinions; and make people agree with you." This speech renewed a slight suspicion in Mrs.Arrowpoint, and again her glance became for a moment examining.

But Gwendolen looked very innocent, and continued with a docile air: "I know nothing of Tasso except the _Gerusalemme Liberata_, which we read and learned by heart at school." "Ah, his life is more interesting than his poetry, I have constructed the early part of his life as a sort of romance.

When one thinks of his father Bernardo, and so on, there is much that must be true." "Imagination is often truer than fact," said Gwendolen, decisively, though she could no more have explained these glib words than if they had been Coptic or Etruscan.


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