It was the brother who told Deronda of this new condition added to their life. "I am become calm in beholding him now," Ezra ended, "and I try to think it possible that my sister's tenderness, and the daily tasting a life of peace, may win him to remain aloof from temptation. I have enjoined her, and she has promised, to trust him with no money. I have convinced her that he will buy with it his own destruction."

"I am become calm in beholding him now," Ezra told Deronda, "and I try to think it possible that my sister's tenderness may keep him from temptation. We have agreed to trust him with no money, for he will buy with it his own destruction."
