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His less accurate grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle; but on reflection it appears that her proceeding is not very different from his; since Science, too, reckons backward as well as forward, divides his unit into billions, and with his clock-finger at Nought really sets off in medias res. No retrospect will take us to the true beginning; and whether our prologue be in heaven or on earth, it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing fact with which our story sets out.  \nWA S SHE BEAUTIFUL OR not beautiful? and what was the secret of form or expression which gave the dynamic quality to her glance? Was the good or the evil genius dominant in those beams? Probably the evil; else why was the effect that of unrest rather than of undisturbed charm? Why was the wish to look again felt as coercion and not as alonging in which the whole being consents?  \nShe who raised these questions in Daniel Deronda’s mind was occupied in gambling: not in the open air under a southern sky, tossing coppers on a ruined wall, with rags about her limbs; but in one of those splendid resorts which the enlightenment of ages has prepared for the same species of pleasure at a heavy cost of guilt mouldings, dark-toned colour and chubby  \nnudities, all correspondingly heavy—forming a suitable condenser for human breath belonging, in great part, to the highest fashion, and not easily procurable to be breathed in elsewhere in the like proportion, at least by persons of little fashion.  \nIt was near four o’clock on a September day, so that the atmosphere was well-brewed to a visible haze. There was deep stillness, broken only by alight rattle, a light chink, a small sweeping sound, and an occasional monotone in French, such as might be expected to issue from an ingeniously constructed automaton. Round two long tables were gathered two serried crowds of human beings, all save one having their faces and attention bent on the tables. The one exception was a melancholy","cbCaicji7ohjYW6F","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicji7ohjYW6F","pdf",3058749,973,"English","# Epigraph\n# Book I—The Spoiled Child\n## Chapter I\n## Chapter II\n## Chapter III\n## Chapter IV\n## Chapter V\n## Chapter VI\n## Chapter VII\n## Chapter VIII\n## Chapter IX\n## Chapter X\n# Book II—Meeting Streams\n## Chapter XI\n## Chapter XII\n## Chapter XIII\n## Chapter XIV\n## Chapter XV\n## Chapter XVI\n## Chapter XVII\n## Chapter XVIII\n# Book III—Maidens Choosing\n## Chapter XIX\n## Chapter XX\n## Chapter XXI\n## Chapter XXII\n## Chapter XXIII\n## Chapter XXIV\n## Chapter XXV\n## Chapter XXVI\n## Chapter XXVII","[{\"question\":\"What theme does the epigraph introduce in Daniel Deronda?\",\"answer\":\"The epigraph emphasizes that vengeance arises from within the soul. 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