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BOOK VIII.—FRUIT AND SEED.
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here—else Mrs Grandcourt would have had none but servants to act for her."
"Yes, yes," said Sir Hugo, with a flippancy which was an escape of some vexation hidden under his more serious speech; "I hope you are not going to set a dead Jew above a living Christian."
Deronda coloured, and repressed a retort. They were just turning into the Italia.