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It was a wide apartment, having in it now but little furniture two rickety tables, a few chairs, an old bureau in which Balatka kept, under lock and key, all that still belonged to him personally, and a little desk, which was Nina's own repository. "Yes, father, I am late; but not very late. I have been with Anton Trendellsohn." "And what have you been there for now?"
If he will name an hour, I will come at his own time." "Cannot you say to me, Herr Trendellsohn, that which you wish to say to him?" "Not very well." "You know that I am in partnership with my father." "He and you are happy to be so placed together. But if your father can spare me five minutes, I will take it from him as a favour."
With this or, if need be, without it he and his Christian wife would go forth and see if the world was not wide enough to find them a spot on which they might live without the contempt of those around them. Though Nina had quenched her lamp and had gone to bed, it was not late when Trendellsohn reached his home, and he knew that he should find his father waiting for him.
"Yes, for a son-in-law Anton Trendellsohn, the Jew. Would he be a good husband for our Nina? You say nothing, uncle Josef." "What am I to say?" "You have heard of it, then? Why can you not answer me, uncle Josef? Have you heard that Trendellsohn has dared to ask Nina to be his wife?" "There is not so much of daring in it, Ziska. Among you all the poor girl is a beggar.
"It is impossible that Nina should have them," said Trendellsohn. "How should she have got them?" "That is nothing to us," said Madame Zamenoy. "The whole thing is nothing to us. You have heard all that we can tell you, and you had better go." "You have heard more than I would have told you myself," said Ziska, "had I been left to my opinion."
Tell me that at once, Josef, that I may know. Has she your sanction for for for this accursed abomination?" Then there was silence in the room for a few moments. "You can at any rate answer a plain question, Josef," continued Madame Zamenoy. "Has Nina your leave to betroth herself to the Jew, Trendellsohn?" "No, I have not got his leave," said Nina.
The public gardens, indeed, were open to her and to Anton Trendellsohn as they were to others; but she knew that she would not dare to be seen in public with her Jew lover till the thing was done and she and the Jew had become man and wife. On this occasion, before she left her home, she was careful to tell her father where she was going. "Have you any message to the Trendellsohns?" she asked.
But as she thought of this, she shook her head. Anton Trendellsohn was not a man to be changed in his religion by any words which she could use. It would be much more probable, she knew, that the conversion would be the other way. And she thought she would not mind that, if only it could be a real conversion.
"I have to apologise for intruding on you with any questions young ladies," said Ziska; "especially on a day which seems to be solemn." "That does not matter at all," said Rebecca. "Here is my brother, and he will take you into the synagogue if you wish to see Anton Trendellsohn." Samuel Loth, her brother, then came up and readily offered to take Ziska into the midst of the worshippers.
On one of these days old Trendellsohn went to the office of Karil Zamenoy, in the Ross Markt, with the full determination of learning in truth what there might be to be learned as to that deed which would be so necessary to him, or to those who would come after him, when Josef Balatka might die.
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