Daniel Deronda

Chapter 46

"I am as glad as you are that the pawnbroker is not her brother: there are

Ezras and Ezras in the world; and really it is a comfort to think that all

Jews are not like those shopkeepers who _will not_ let you get out of

their shops: and besides, what he said to you about his mother and sister

makes me bless him. I am sure he's good. But I never did like anything

fanatical. I suppose I heard a little too much preaching in my youth and

lost my palate for it."

"I don't think you will find that Mordecai obtrudes any preaching," said

Deronda. "He is not what I should call fanatical. I call a man fanatical

when his enthusiasm is narrow and hoodwinked, so that he has no sense of

proportions, and becomes unjust and unsympathetic to men who are out of

his own track. Mordecai is an enthus