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BOOK VI.
REVELATIONS.
CHAPTER XLI.
"This, too, is probable, according to that saying of Agathon: 'It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.'"—Aristotle: Poetics.
Imagine the conflict in a mind like Deronda's, given not only to feel strongly but to question actively, on the evening after that interview with Mordecai. To a young man of much duller susceptibilities the adventure might have seemed enough out of the common way to divide his thoughts; but it had stirred Deronda so deeply, that with the usual reaction of his intellect he began to examine the grounds of his emotion, and consider how far he must resist its guidance. The
