George Eliot, too, has dedicated her greatest volume to the study of this principle.

The orphan child, Tito, is received into the arms of an adopted father, who lavishes upon him all his wealth.

But when the youth was grown to full strength and beauty, one night Tito left his adopted father in slavery and fled with his gold and gems into a foreign land.

Years passed by and, with his stolen wealth, Tito bought wife, palace, position, fame.
He had sown falsehood and cruelty, and nothing seemed so unlikely as that he would reap a similar harvest.

But one day the people discovered his falsehood and attacked Tito.