jew-merchant's

Updated: July 28, 2025

Do you accept his challenge?" "I would accept it readily enough, your Majesty," answered Morella in sullen tones, "since heretofore none have doubted my courage; but I must remember that I am" and he paused, then added "what your Majesties know me to be, a grandee of Spain, and something more, wherefore it is scarcely lawful for me to cross swords with a Jew-merchant's clerk, for that was this man's high rank and office in England."

Henry Rider Haggard - Fair Margaret