"I should despise myself for wishing it," said Deronda. "How could I know what I was wishing? We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what we imagine might have been. If I took to foolish wishing of that sort, I should wish--not that I had never seen you, but that I had been able to save you from this."

"I should despise myself for wishing it," said Deronda. "If I took to foolish wishing of that sort, I should wish - not that I had never seen you, but that I had been able to save you from this."
