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"That comes of letting girls go about just as they please among the men," said Lotta. "But a Jew!" said Madame Zamenoy. "If it had been any kind of a Christian, I could understand it." "Trendellsohn has such a hold upon her, and upon her father," said Lotta. "But a Jew! She has been to confession, has she not?" "Regularly," said Lotta Luxa. "Dear, dear! what a false hypocrite! And at mass?"
First there came one man, and then another, and a third; and she thought, as her eyes fell upon them, that the figure of each was the figure of Anton Trendellsohn. But as they emerged from the darker shadow into the light that was near, she saw that it was not so, and she told herself that she was glad. If Anton were to come and find her there, it might be that he would disturb her purpose.
Then Ziska addressed them, and asked if Anton Trendellsohn did not live there. "Yes; he lives there," said Ruth, almost trembling, as she answered the handsome stranger. "And is he at home?" "He is in the synagogue," said Ruth. "You will find him there if you will go in." "But they are at worship there," said Ziska, doubtingly.
"What do you mean by that, Souchey?" said the girl, sharply. "You are seeing too much of Anton Trendellsohn," repeated the old man. "I have to see him on father's account. You know that. You know that, Souchey, and you shouldn't say such things." "You are seeing too much of Anton Trendellsohn," said Souchey for the third time. "Anton Trendellsohn is a Jew."
I have known them for four-and-twenty." "Nay; that cannot be." "But I have. That is my age, and I was born, so to say, in their arms. Ruth Trendellsohn was ten years older than I only ten." "And Anton?" "Anton was a year older than his sister; but you know Anton's age. Has he never told you his age?" "I never asked him; but I know it. There are things one knows as a matter of course.
At this moment Nina had in her heart no charity towards her cousin, and did not care for his discomfort. "Ziska," she said, "Anton Trendellsohn wants to have the papers about the houses in the Kleinseite. He says that they are his, and you have them." Ziska hated Anton Trendellsohn, hardly knowing why he hated him.
But, apparently without displeasure, he moved it with his left hand, while he swayed his right hand backwards and forwards as though regulating the melody of the wail. Beyond the High Priest Ziska saw Anton Trendellsohn, and close to the son he saw the old man whom he had met in the street, and whom he recognised as Anton's father.
She would undoubtedly tell her father and her aunt; and would as certainly demand from her uncle those documents of which Anton Trendellsohn had spoken to her. Nina, as she returned home from the Jews' quarter to her father's house in the Kleinseite, paused for a while on the bridge to make some resolution some resolution that should be fixed as to her immediate conduct.
After this there was a pause for a few minutes, and Nina was settling herself to her work. Then the old man spoke again. "Nina, I fear you see too much of Anton Trendellsohn." The words were the very words of Souchey; and Nina was sure that her father and the servant had been discussing her conduct.
Every one in the room understood the exact position in which each stood to the other. That Rebecca would willingly have become Anton's wife, that she had refused various offers of marriage in order that ultimately it might be so, was known to Stephen Trendellsohn, and to Anton himself, and to Ruth Jacobi. There had not been the pretence of any secret among them in the matter.
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