He remained silent, and she presently said,
"You love her as your father loved me, and she draws you after her as I drew him."
Those words touched Deronda's filial imagination, and some tenderness in his glance was taken by his mother as an assent. She went on with rising passion: "But I was leading him the other way. 
Deronda remained silent, and she presently said, with rising passion-
"You love her as your father loved me, and she draws you after her as I drew him. But I was leading him the other way. 