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Father Jerome had been very mild with Nina, but his mildness did not produce any corresponding feelings of gentleness in the breasts of Nina's relatives in the Windberg-gasse. Indeed, it had the contrary effect of instigating Madame Zamenoy and Lotta Luxa to new exertions.
But will you abandon this mad thought if I tell you where it is?" "No; certainly not." "What a fool the man is!" said Madame Zamenoy. "He comes to us for what he calls his property because he wants to marry the girl, and she is deceiving him all the while. Go to Nina Balatka, Trendellsohn, and she will tell you who has the document. She will tell you where it is, if it suits her to do so."
Here lived Sophie Zamenoy; and so far up in the world had she mounted, that she had a coach of her own in which to be drawn about the thoroughfares of Prague and its suburbs, and a stout little pair of Bohemian horses ponies they were called by those who wished to detract somewhat from Madame Zamenoy's position.
"I came here, madame," continued Anton, "not to talk of my love, but of certain documents or title-deeds respecting those houses, which should be at present in my father's custody. I am told that your husband has them in his safe custody." "My husband has them not," said Madame Zamenoy. "Stop, my dear stop," said the husband.
The elder Zamenoy no doubt understood that Anton Trendellsohn was to be bought off by the document; and he was not unwilling to buy him off so cheaply, knowing as he did that the houses were in truth the Jew's property; but Madame Zamenoy's scheme was deeper than this.
If such was Madame Zamenoy's ordinary doctrine, it may well be understood that she would scruple at using no weapon against a Jew who was meditating so great an injury against her as this marriage with her niece. After this little discussion old Zamenoy said no more, and Madame Zamenoy went home to the Windberg-gasse. Trendellsohn, as he walked homewards, was lost in amazement.
Madame Zamenoy put so much stress upon the latter word that her brother-in-law almost jumped from under the bed-clothes. Nina raised herself, as she was standing, to her full height, and a smile of derision came upon her face. "Oh, yes! I daresay you do not mind it," said Madame Zamenoy. "I daresay you can laugh now at all the pains of hell.
"Upon my word, I know nothing about it," said Zamenoy "nothing, that is to say, in the way of business;" and the man of business laughed. "Mind I do not at all deny that you did so you or your father, or the two together. Your people are getting into their hands lots of houses all over the town; but how they do it nobody knows. They are not bought in fair open market."
If it were here it would be in safe keeping for my brother-in-law, and only to him could it be given." "But will you not say whether it is in your hands? You know well that Josef Balatka is ill, and cannot attend to such matters." "And who has made him ill, and what has made him ill?" said Madame Zamenoy. "Ill! of course he is ill.
"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?"
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