Teaching, teaching for everlasting--'this you must be,' 'that you must not be'--pressed on me like a frame that got tighter and tighter as I grew. I wanted to live a large life, with freedom to do what every one else did, and be carried along in a great current, not obliged to care. Ah!"--here her tone changed to one of a more bitter incisiveness--"you are glad to have been born a Jew. You say so. That is because you have not been brought up as a Jew. That separateness seems sweet to you because I saved you from it."
"When you resolved on that, you meant that I should never know my origin?" said Deronda, impulsively. "You have at least changed in your feeling on that point."

'You must be this,' 'you must not be that' pressed on me like a frame that got tighter and tighter as I grew. I wanted freedom. Ah!" - her tone changed to bitter incisiveness - "you are glad to have been born a Jew, because you were not brought up as a Jew. It seems sweet to you because I saved you from it."
"Did you mean that I should never know my origin?" said Deronda. "You have changed your mind on that point."
