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Updated: June 7, 2025
For aught I know, she has them herself. I believe that she has them. Ziska," said Madame Zamenoy, calling aloud "Ziska, come hither;" and Ziska entered the room. "Ziska, who has the title-deeds of your uncle's houses in the Kleinseite?" Ziska hesitated a moment without answering. "You know, if anybody does," said his mother; "tell this man, since he is so anxious, who has got them."
"You have seen this contract before, I think, said Trendellsohn, bringing forth a written paper. "I will not look at it now at any rate. I have nothing to do with it, and I will have nothing to do with it. You have heard Madame Zamenoy declare that the deed which you seek is not here. I cannot say whether it is here or no. I do not say as you will be pleased to remember.
"I am speaking to your father, miss," said the enraged aunt. "Yes; you are speaking very roughly to father, and he is ill. Therefore I answer for him." "And has he not forbidden you to think of marrying this Jew?" "No, he has not," said Nina. "Josef, answer for yourself like a man," said Madame Zamenoy. "Have you not forbidden this marriage? Do you not forbid it now?
How this had come to pass needs not to be told here, as it had all occurred in years when Nina was an infant. But in these shiftings Balatka became a ruined man, and at the time of which I write he and his daughter were almost penniless. The reader must know that Karil Zamenoy and Josef Balatka had married sisters.
"They tell me that the document is in the house in the Kleinseite." "Who are they? Who is it that tells you?" "More than one. Your uncle and aunt said so and Ziska Zamenoy came to me on purpose to repeat the same." "And would you believe what Ziska says? I have hardly thought it worth my while to tell you that Ziska " "To tell me what of Ziska?"
She knew that she was glad to have been saved; but what might come next was, at that moment, all vague, uncertain, and utterly beyond her own control She hardly ventured to hope more than that Anton Trendellsohn would not give her up to Madame Zamenoy. If he did, she must seek the river again, or some other mode of escape from that worst of fates.
She had just resolved that she could not take the key that in spite of her promise she could not bring herself to treat her father after such fashion as that when the old man turned suddenly round upon her again, and went back to the subject. "I have got a letter somewhere from Karil Zamenoy," said he, "telling me that the deed is in his own chest."
There was, certainly, no such deed among the papers which her father slowly turned over, and which he slowly proceeded to tie up again with the old tape. "I am sure I saw it the other day," he said, fingering among the loose papers while Nina looked on with anxious eyes. Then at last he found the letter from Karil Zamenoy, and having read it himself, gave it her to read.
And it seemed to Madame Zamenoy as though the marriage of which Nina spoke was a thing to be done at once, out of hand as though the disgusting nuptials were to take place on that day or on the next, and could not now be avoided. It occurred to her that old Balatka himself was a consenting party, and that utter degradation was to fall upon the family instantly.
So, at last, Madame Zamenoy found herself obliged to go over in person to the house in the Kleinseite. Such visits had for many years been very rare with her.
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