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Updated: September 2, 2025
"You are acquainted with the young, beautiful, and wealthy Countess of Arestino, Isaachar?" said the bandit. The Jew stared at him in increased alarm, now mingled with amazement.
"But wherefore here so late?" "Late, do ye call it. Signor Isaachar?" ejaculated the bandit, crossing the threshold. "Meseems there is yet time to do a world of business this night, for those who have the opportunity and the inclination."
Is it not so, Isaachar?" "I know not the motive for which the money was raised," answered the Jew, wondering what was coming next. "Oh! then the money was raised with you," cried Stephano, "and consequently you hold the diamonds." "I did not say so I " "A truce to this fencing with my words!" ejaculated the bandit, impatiently. "I have an unconquerable desire to behold these diamonds "
For this reason I depart at once; see that the ransom be dispatched to my pavilion ere the sun shall have set behind the western hills." With these words the grand vizier bowed haughtily to the duke, and quitted the council chamber. Manuel d'Orsini followed, supporting Isaachar ben Solomon; and, on reaching the court, one of Ibrahim's slaves took the Jew up behind him on his steed.
Isaachar would have continued his address to the grand inquisitor; but sheer exhaustion compelled him to desist and he would have sunk upon the cold marble, had not the familiars supported him. "By his own words is he convicted of disbelief in the most holy Catholic faith," said the grand inquisitor.
Silence, and calmness, and moonlight were still spread over the City of Flowers, while the marquis pursued the path leading to the suburb of Alla Droce. And the silver-faced stars shone on shone on, brightly and sweetly, as the young nobleman knocked at the well-protected door of Isaachar ben Solomon.
"Be kind enough to bind it with my scarf, Signor Verrina, and let us continue in a more peaceful manner the discourse which has been somewhat rudely interrupted." Isaachar, however, supplied water in an ewer, and linen bandages; and the old man, forgetting the object of Manuel's predatory visit to his abode, hastened himself to wash and bind up the wounded arm.
Thus, at the very time when Nisida and Wagner were united in the bonds of love on the island of which they were the possessors while, too, Isaachar the Jew languished in the prisons of the Inquisition of Florence, at which city the chivalrous-hearted Manuel d'Orsini tarried to hasten on the trial and give his testimony in favor of the Israelite and moreover while Flora, and the Countess Giulia dwelt in the strictest retirement with the young maiden's aunt at this period, we say, a fleet of three hundred sail quitted Constantinople under the command of the kapitan-pasha, or lord high admiral, and proceeded toward the Island of Rhodes.
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