uiet yourself."
Then to the men who were assisting her, "I am a connection of this
lady's husband. If you will get her on to the _Italia_ as quickly as
possible, I will undertake everything else."

He stayed behind to hear from the remaining boatman that her husband
had gone down irrecoverably, and that his boat was left floating empty.
He and his comrade had heard a cry, had come up in time to see the lady
jump in after her husband, and had got her out fast enough to save her
from much damage.

After this, Deronda hastened to the hotel to assure himself that the
best medical help would be provided; and being satisfied on this point,
he telegraphed the event to Sir Hugo, begging him to come forthwith,
and also to Mr. Gascoigne, whose address at the rectory made his
nearest known way of getting the information to Gwendolen's mother.
Certain words of Gwendolen's in the past had come back to him with the
effectiveness of an inspiration: in moments of agitated confession she
had spoken of her mother's presence, as a possible help, if she could
have had it.

CHAPTER LVI.

"The pang, the curse with which they died,
Had never passed away:
I could not draw my eyes from theirs,
Nor lift them up to pray."
--COLERIDGE.

Deronda did not take off his clothes that night. Gwendolen, after
insisting on seeing him again before she would consent to be undressed,
had been perfectly quiet, and had only asked him, with a whispering,
repressed eagerness, to promise that he would come to her when she sent
for him in the morning. Still, the possibility that a change might come
over her, the danger of a supervening feverish condition, and the
suspicion that something in the late catastrophe was having an effect
which might betray itself in excited words, acted as a foreboding
within him. He mentioned to her attendant that he should keep himself
ready to be called if there were any alarming change of symptoms,
making it understood by all concerned that he was in communication with
her friends in England, and felt bound meanwhile to take all care on
her behalf--a position which it was the easier for him to assume,
because he was well known to Grandcourt's valet, the only old servant
who had come on the late voyage.

But when fatigue from the strangely various emotion of the day at last
sent Deronda to sleep, he remained undisturbed except by the morning
dreams, which came as a tangle