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Lapidoth is Mirah and Mordecai’s father, a self-serving and abusive man who exploits Mirah’s musical talent for his financial gain. After abandoning his family, Lapidoth reappears in Mirah’s life, demanding money and attempting to reassert control over her. His character embodies greed and selfishness, standing in stark contrast to the moral and compassionate values of his children.
Lapidoth Quotes in Daniel Deronda
The Daniel Deronda quotes below are all either spoken by Lapidoth or refer to Lapidoth . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 62
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“Here we are at the door. My brother would not wish me to close it on you.”
Mirah was already on the doorstep, but had her face turned toward her father, who stood below her on the pavement. Her heart had begun to beat faster with the prospect of what was coming in the presence of Ezra; and already in this attitude of giving leave to the father whom she had been used to obey—in this sight of him standing below her, with a perceptible shrinking from the admission which he had been indirectly asking for, she had a pang of the peculiar, sympathetic humiliation and shame—the stabbed heart of reverence—which belongs to a nature intensely filial.
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Chapter 67
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What duty is made of a single difficult resolve? The difficulty lies in the daily unflinching support of consequences that mar the blessed return of morning with the prospect of irritation to be suppressed or shame to be endured. And such consequences were being borne by these, as by many other heroic children of an unworthy father—with the prospect, at least to Mirah, of their stretching onward through the solid part of life.
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Lapidoth Quotes in Daniel Deronda
The Daniel Deronda quotes below are all either spoken by Lapidoth or refer to Lapidoth . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 62
Quotes
“Here we are at the door. My brother would not wish me to close it on you.”
Mirah was already on the doorstep, but had her face turned toward her father, who stood below her on the pavement. Her heart had begun to beat faster with the prospect of what was coming in the presence of Ezra; and already in this attitude of giving leave to the father whom she had been used to obey—in this sight of him standing below her, with a perceptible shrinking from the admission which he had been indirectly asking for, she had a pang of the peculiar, sympathetic humiliation and shame—the stabbed heart of reverence—which belongs to a nature intensely filial.
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Chapter 67
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What duty is made of a single difficult resolve? The difficulty lies in the daily unflinching support of consequences that mar the blessed return of morning with the prospect of irritation to be suppressed or shame to be endured. And such consequences were being borne by these, as by many other heroic children of an unworthy father—with the prospect, at least to Mirah, of their stretching onward through the solid part of life.
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