Excerpt from The Works of George Eliot, Vol. 2: Daniel Deronda Ah, perhaps, said Grandcourt, without change of expression. Lady Mallinger thought this worth telling to Sir Hugo, who said, Oh, my dear, he is not a fool. You must not sup pose that he can't see a joke. He can play his cards as well as most of us. He has never seemed to me a very sensible man, said Lady Mallinger, in excuse of her self. She had a secret objection to meeting Grandcourt, who was little else to her than a large living sign of what she felt to be her failure as a wife, the not having presented Sir Hugo with a son. Her constant reflection was that her husband might fairly regret his choice, and if he had not been very good might have treated her with some roughness in con sequence, gentlemen naturally disliking to be disappointed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.