Gascoigne, Rex

Eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Gascoigne; the pride of the family. "He was a fine open-hearted youth, with a handsome face strongly resembling his father's and Anna's, but softer in expression than the one, and larger in scale than the other: a bright, healthy, loving nature, enjoying ordinary, innocent things so much that vice had no temptation for him, and what he knew of it lay too entirely in the outer courts and little-visited chambers of his mind for him to think of it with great repulsion. Vicious habits were with, him ' what some fellows did '—' stupid stuff ' which he liked to keep aloof fRomola" While still a young student at Oxford he falls deeply in love with his cousin, Gwendolen Harleth, who rejects him, and he is long in recovering from the effects of his unsuccessful love affair. When financial reverses overtake his family he meets misfortune manfully, and makes every effort to help them. As he has never lost his fondness for Gwendolen, he is profoundly moved by the news of her husband's death.

<em>Daniel Deronda</em>

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