Ram, Mr.

Second-hand bookdealer, in whose shop Daniel Deronda first meets Mordecai. "He was an elderly son of Abraham, whose childhood had fallen on the evil times at the beginning of this century, and who remained amid this smart and instructed generation as a preserved specimen, soaked through and through with the effect of the poverty and contempt which were the common heritage of most English Jews seventy years ago. He had none of the oily cheerfulness observable in Mr. Cohen's aspect . . . Mr. Ram dealt ably in books in the same way that he would have dealt in tins of meat and other commodities —without knowledge or responsibility as to the proportion of rottenness or nourishment they might contain."

<em>Daniel Deronda</em>

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