Both Uses of
deception
in
The Mill on the Floss
- The possession of a wife conspicuously one's inferior in intellect is, like other high privileges, attended with a few inconveniences, and, among the rest, with the occasional necessity for using a little deception.†
Chpt 3.1deception = the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
- It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive; when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves floodmarks which are never reached again.†
Chpt 5.4 *deceptive = misleading