I have been forced to tell you that you are a Jew, and deliver to you what he commanded me to deliver."
"I beseech you to tell me what moved you--when you were young, I mean--to take the course you did," said Deronda, trying by this reference to the past to escape from what to him was the heart-rending piteousness of this mingled suffering and defiance. "I gather that my grandfather opposed your bent to be an artist. Though my own experience has been quite different, I enter into the painfulness of your struggle. I can imagine the hardship of an enforced renunciation."

I have been forced to tell you that you are a Jew, and deliver to you what he commanded me to deliver."
"Please tell me what moved you to take the course you did," said Deronda, trying to escape the heart-rending piteousness of this suffering and defiance. "I gather that my grandfather opposed your wish to be an artist. I can imagine the hardship of your struggle."
