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He and his lady, under very trying circumstances, had been treated in the most kind and hospitable manner by Mr. Montenero and his family. With that true English warmth of gratitude, which contrasts so strongly and agreeably with the natural reserve of English manner and habits, the general and his wife, Lady Emily, expressed their joy at having Mr.
"The Jews!" said I, both in the same breath, but in very different tones. "Jews, did I say?" replied Mowbray: "Jew, I should have said." "Mr. Montenero?" cried I. "Montenero! Can you think of nothing but Mr. Montenero, whom you've never seen, and never will see?" "Thank you for that, my lord," said my mother; "one touch from you is worth a hundred from me."
Montenero, a Jewish gentleman born in Spain, who had early in life quitted that country, in consequence of his horror of tyranny and persecution. He had been fortunate enough to carry his wealth, which was very considerable, safely out of Spain, and had settled in America, where he had enjoyed perfect toleration and freedom of religious opinion; and as, according to Mr.
Bad luck to the minute they come into the house! I wish the jantleman would be back Oh! here he is and will they go, jewel?" cried she, eagerly. "The ladies will stay," said Mr. Montenero. "Murder! but you can't help it so no more about it but what arms have ye?" No arms were to be found in the house but a couple of swords, a pair of pistols of Mr.
They had taken the utmost pains to work on my imagination on this particular point, on which he knew my early associations might betray me to symptoms of apparent insanity. Upon comparing and explaining these circumstances, Mr. Montenero further laid open to me the treacherous ingenuity of the man who had so duped me by the show of sympathy and friendship.
Montenero immediately led me to one of Murillo's, regretting that he had not the pleasure of showing it to my mother. I began to speak of her sorrow at not being able to venture out; I made some apology, but whatever it was, I am sure I did not, I could not, pronounce it well. Mr.
"I would give," exclaimed my father, "I would give one of my fingers this instant, that she was not a Jewess!" "Is your objection, sir, to her not being a Christian, or to her being the daughter of a Jew?" "Can you conceive, Mr. Montenero," cried my father, "that after all I have seen of you all you have done for me can you conceive me to be such an obstinately prejudiced brute?
Montenero returned to the drawing-room, to learn the determination of his guests. "There goes as good a Christian!" cried the Widow Levy, holding up her forefinger, and shaking it at Mr. Montenero the moment his back was turned: "didn't I tell ye so from the first?
Lady Emily B was detained in the country by the illness of one of her family, and Miss Montenero, having declined going into public with Mrs. Coates, would wait quietly at home till her English friends should come to town. Again shame for my mother's remissness obliged me to cast down my eyes in awkward silence. But Mowbray, Heaven bless him for it! went on fluently.
Montenero, and you will say, 'Sir, that you are a Jew, I know; that you are as rich as a Jew, I hope; that you are a fool, I take for granted: at all events, I am a madman and a beggar, or about to be a beggar.
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