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And as the Sovereign re-appeared in her saloon with the leech Benedicto, whose aid she had summoned, there were many who ventured to conjure her not to expose herself to such pollution as the tending of a Jewess to leave her to the fate her fraud so merited.
The young Jewess ate as if she were very faint as well as weary. "Then hast thou come here all the way from Lincoln?" inquired Margaret when the bowl was emptied. "If it please my Damsel, no. I had returned home only two days before the riot." "Is thy mother living?" asked Margaret abruptly. "Yes. She abode at Lincoln with my grandfather. He is very old, and will not in likelihood live long.
This Capuchin, who was a jovial soul, obligingly said he would accompany me, as he himself had a little business there, in connection with the conversion of a young Jewess, whose eyes, he said in confidence, were brighter than any diamond. I accepted the holy man's aid, and we set forth, he showing me many places of interest on our way.
Had not the Jewess been on the spot, whom she believed to be a rival once more, however high was her character and Hedwig's eulogy, she would have prudently fled again without fighting. She had the less reason to stay, as the house was to be sold, in a manner of speaking, from under her feet. Yet the Marseillais was worth more than a passing glance.
The Italian artists painted Italian Virgins, the Dutch painted Dutch Virgins, the Virgins of the French painters were Frenchwomen none of them ever put into the face of the Madonna that indescribable something which proclaims the Jewess, whether you find her in New York, in Constantinople, in Paris, Jerusalem, or in the empire of Morocco.
"She may be your friend, Béla," rejoined Elsa gently, "and she certainly belongs to this village; but she is not one of us. She is a Jewess, not a Hungarian, like we all are." "What has her religion to do with it?" he retorted. "It isn't her religion, Béla," persisted the girl, with obstinacy at least as firm as his own; "you know that quite well.
It dates from the bombardment, and he had waited all these years to avenge himself. I believe it was the loss of his wife." "Amos made her a Jewess, eh?" And then, after a pause, Gregorio added: "So we can depend on Ahmed. To-night I will win back my son or " "Or?" queried madam, tremblingly. "Or Amos starts on his journey to hell. God, how my fingers itch to slay him! The devil, the Jew devil!"
"He detests the Israelites, and he allows it to be seen a little too much. He embarrasses us sometimes. But there is one extenuating circumstance he has married a Jewess!" This was said in a light, careless, humorously sceptical tone. "On the whole," concluded the minister, "Armand Bitto, who is no longer in this world, is perhaps the most fortunate of all."
"From the days of my boarding-school," she continued, "I have known only one Mabel. In her girlhood she had all that she could get out of life and turned everything she could to her own ends. A marriage was arranged for her you see, I was half a Jewess and my husband was half a Jew, and things are done like that with us. The marriage opened the door to a fresh set of ambitions.
But the prince commanded the musicians and dancers to depart, and taking Tutmosis to the garden, he said, "Of course my mother may she live through eternity! sent thee to separate me from the Jewess? Tell her worthiness that were Herhor to become not merely viceroy, but the son of my father, I should do that which pleases me. I know how to do it.
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