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Trendellsohn paused for a moment on the threshold, fixing his eyes full upon those of his rival; but Ziska neither spoke nor made any further gesture, and then the Jew left the house. "I would have told him nothing," said the elder Zamenoy when they were left alone. "My dear, you don't understand; indeed you do not," said his wife.
"When once we stray from the Holy Church, there is no knowing what terrible evils may come upon us," said Madame Zamenoy. "No indeed, ma'am," said Lotta Luxa. "But I have done all in my power." "That you have, ma'am." "I feel quite sure, Lotta, that the Jew will never marry her. Why should a man like that, who loves money better than his soul, marry a girl who has not a kreutzer to bless herself?"
There was a crowd of clothes and linen hanging round the stove, which projected far into the room; and spread upon the table, close to which was placed mamma Zamenoy's chair, was an article of papa Zamenoy's dress, on which mamma Zamenoy was about to employ her talents in the art of tailoring.
On this occasion Madame Zamenoy walked on foot, thinking that her carriage and horses might be too conspicuous at the arched gate in the little square.
And then, when Nina with hesitation acknowledged that such was the case, the man asked her why she did not go to her rich aunt, instead of selling a trinket which must be so valuable. "No!" said Nina, "I cannot do that. If you will lend me something of its value, I shall be so much obliged to you." "But Madame Zamenoy would surely help you?" "We would not take it from her.
"And there's our Ziska would take her to-morrow in spite of the Jew." "Would he now?" "That he would, without anything but what she stands up in. And he'd behave very handsome to anyone that would help him." "He'd be the first of his name that ever did, then. I have known the time when old Balatka there, poor as he is now, would give a florin when Karil Zamenoy begrudged six kreutzers."
"Love!" said Madame Zamenoy, springing from her chair; love indeed! "Do not talk to me of love for a Jew." "My dear, my dear!" said her husband, expostulating. "How dares he come here to talk of his love? It is filthy it is worse than filthy it is profane."
Trendellsohn stood pausing for a moment, and then he turned to the elder Zamenoy. "What do you say, sir? Is it true that these papers are at the house in the Kleinseite?" "I say nothing," said Karil Zamenoy. "It seems to me that too much has been said already." "A great deal too much," said the lady.
Ziska is mad about her," said Madame Zamenoy. "But Ziska is a calf to Anton Trendellsohn. Anton Trendellsohn has cut his wise teeth. Like them all, he loves his money; and she has not got a kreutzer." "But he has promised to marry her. You may be sure of that." "Very likely. A man always promises that when he wants a girl to be kind to him. But why should he stick to it?
Now Lotta Luxa was clean in the midst of her work; and one would have thought that the cleanliness of the maid would have shamed the slatternly ways of the mistress. But Madame Zamenoy and Lotta Luxa had lived together long, and probably knew each other well. "Well, Nina," she said, "so you've come at last?" "Yes; I've come, aunt.
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