\u27\u27\u27Great God! the words escaped Deronda\u27 as he watched the just-prevented-from-drowning Mirah. \u27The old thought had come now with a new impetus of mingled feeling, and urged that exclamation in which both East and West have for ages concentrated their awe in the presence of inexorable calamity.\u27!
Among those who welcome Mirah to Mrs. Meyrick\u27s household is the cat Hafiz, seen by Deronda as it \u27came forward with tail erect and rubbed himself against her ankles\u27, an Eastern moment accompanying Mirah\u27s entrance into the Meyrick family. Hafiz is later to purr as Mirah starts to tell her story to Mrs. Meyrick
