CHAPTER XXXV. 

Were uneasiness of conscience measured by extent of crime, human history had been different, and one should look to see the contrivers of greedy wars and the mighty marauders of the money-market in one troop of self-lacerating penitents with the meaner robber and cut-purse and the murderer that doth his butchery in small with his own hand. No doubt wickedness hath its rewards to distribute; but who so wins in this devil's game must needs be baser, more cruel, more brutal than the order of this planet will allow for the multitude born of woman, the most of these carrying a form of conscience--a fear which is the shadow of justice, a pity which is the shadow of love--that hindereth from the prize of serene wickedness, itself difficult of maintenance in our composite flesh. 

On the twenty-ninth of December Deronda knew that the Grandcourts had arrived at the Abbey, but he had had no glimpse of them before he went to dress for dinner. There had been a splendid fall of snow, allowing the party of children the rare pleasures of snow-balling and snow-building, and in the Christmas holidays the Mallinger girls were content with no amusement unless it were joined in and managed by "cousin," as they had always called Deronda. After that outdoor exertion he had been playing billiards, and thus the hours had passed without his dwelling at all on the prospect of meeting Gwendolen at dinner. Nevertheless that prospect was interesting to him; and when, a little tired and heated with working at amusement, he went to his room before the half-hour bell had rung, he began to think of it with some speculation on the sort of influence her marriage with Grandcourt would have on her, and on the probability that there would be some discernible shades of change in her manner since he saw her at Diplow, just as there had been since his first vision of her at Leubronn.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What is degree of criminality used to measure?
2. What can be determined by degree of criminality?
3. What is measured by how criminal something was?
Q2:
1. Whose arrival came in December?
2. Who had a December arrival?
3. Who appeared in the month of December?
Q3:
1. Who knew of the Grandcourts arrival?
2. Who had awareness of the arrival of the Grandcourts?
3. Who had knowledge that the Grandcourts had arrived?
Q4:
1. Did Deronda see the Grandcourts before his meal?
2. Did Deronda have an encounter with the Grandcourts before eating?
3. Prior to his meal, did Deronda come across the Grandcourts?
Q5:
1. What did Deronda do before eating?
2. What was Deronda's course of action before his meal?
3. Prior to eating, what was Deronda up to?
Q6:
1. What was the weather like?
2. How was it outside?
3. Describe the weather.
Q7:
1. What was the children's plan?
2. What did the kids set out to do?
3. What were the children going to get into?
Q8:
1. Who wished to play with "cousin?"?
2. Who hoped to have playtime with "cousin?"?
3. Who wanted some time to play with "cousin?"?
Q9:
1. What was the name of "cousin?"?
2. Who bore the identity of "cousin?"?
3. Who was referred to by the term "cousin?"?
Q10:
1. What was Deronda doing?
2. What was Deronda up to?
3. What was Deronda's present activity?
Q11:
1. Who was Deronda going to meet later?
2. Who was Deronda later to meet up with?
3. Who would Deronda see at a later time?
Q12:
1. Where did Deronda go before something rang?
2. Where did Deronda head before a ringing started?
3. Prior to something ringing, where did Deronda head off?
Q13:
1. Who was Gwendolen engaged to?
2. Who was Gwendolen's fiance?
3. What was the identity of Gwendolen's fiance?
Q14:
1. Where had Deronda seen Gwendolen?
2. Where was Gwendolen spotted by Deronda?
3. In what location had Deronda taken note of Gwendolen?
Q15:
1. Where had Deronda seen Gwendolen, other than at dinner?
2. Where was Gwendolen spotted by Deronda, apart from dinnertime?
3. In what location had Deronda taken note of Gwendolen for the first time?
