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Belasez hesitated. She was very unwilling to say no: and how could she in conscience say yes? "They were according to our law, I thank my Lady, all but the ham. That, under her gracious leave, I must decline." "But thou didst not take the cheese?" "No, with my Lady's leave." "Was it not in accordance with thy law, or didst thou not like it?"
"A man came, undoubtedly, who claimed to be the Man who was to come. But was the claim a true one?" "I have always been told that it was!" "And I have always been told that it was not." "Then how are we to find out which is true?" Belasez spread her hands out with a semi-Eastern gesture, which indicated hopeless incapacity, of some sort. "Damsel, do not ask me.
"He meant well, I suppose. And of course it is better thy soul should be saved. But I wish he had less zeal and more discretion." "Lady," said Belasez, pausing for an instant, "if ever I enter the kingdom of the Blessed One above, I think I shall owe it to the Bishop of Lincoln and to Father Bruno." "That is well, no doubt," responded the Countess, in a very doubtful tone.
His is the heavenly love which can never die, which is ready to sacrifice all things, which so looks to the true welfare of the beloved that it will give thee any earthly suffering rather than see thee sink into perdition by thy sins. This is real love, daughter: and thou canst not sin in giving it to Belasez or to any other."
Dost thou think, Belasez, that the Lady lacks anything to-day? I have one of the sweetest pieces of pale blue Cyprus that ever was woven, and some exquisite gold Damascene stuffs as well." "I am sure, Father, she will like to look at them, and I have little doubt she will buy." "How are matters going with thee, child? Has thy father got leave to abandon his vows?"
Belasez thought, with momentary amusement, that Bruno was not so well acquainted with Licorice as herself. "I asked in great distress if Anegay were not with her.
"Belasez, I cannot quite understand thee. Sometimes thou seemest so different from what thou art at other times." "Because I am different. Understand me! Do I understand myself? The Holy One to whom be praise! He understands us all." "But sometimes thou art willing to hear and talk, and at others thou art close shut up like a coffer." "Because that is how I feel."
"`Would she not like better to be a villein scullion-maid, than to be the daughter of my noble Lord of Kent?" "But Jews are not noble!" cried Margaret, gazing in bewilderment from Belasez to Doucebelle, as if she expected one of them to help her out of the puzzle. "Not in the world's estimate," answered Belasez. "There is One above the world."
The same pure oval face, the smooth calm brow, the dark glossy hair: but it struck Belasez that her own features, as seen in the mirror, were the less prominently Jewish. And, once more, who was Anegay? How little it is possible to know of the innermost heart of our nearest friends!
"Belasez, what are your sacred books? You seem to have some." "We gave them to you," was Belasez's reply. "But ye have added to them." "But the Scriptures were given to the Church!" remonstrated Doucebelle with some surprise. "I know not what ye mean by the Church," answered the Jewess. "They were ours, given to our fathers, revealed to them by the Holy One.
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