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Updated: June 7, 2025
Nina Balatka was a maiden of Prague, born of Christian parents, and herself a Christian but she loved a Jew; and this is her story. Nina Balatka was the daughter of one Josef Balatka, an old merchant of Prague, who was living at the time of this story; but Nina's mother was dead.
He wholly disbelieved the statement that the document he desired was in Nina's hands, but he thought it possible that it might be in the house in the Kleinseite. It was, after all, on the cards that old Balatka was deceiving him. The Jew was by nature suspicious, though he was also generous. He could be noble in his confidence, and at the same time could become at a moment distrustful.
With many expressions of awe, and with much denunciation of her niece's iniquity, she told to Lotta what she had heard, speaking of Nina as one who was utterly lost and abandoned. Lotta, however, did not express so much indignant surprise as her mistress expected, though she was willing enough to join in abuse against Nina Balatka.
So at least Ziska argued in his own mind. "I do not want to keep anything that belongs to anybody," said Ziska. "If the papers are with us, I am willing that they should be given up that is, if it be right that they should be given up." "It is right," said Nina. "I believe the Trendellsohns should have them either father or son," said old Balatka.
"I do not know why I should tell him my cousin's secrets." "Tell him, I say. It is well that he should know." "Nina has them, as I believe," said Ziska, still hesitating. "Nina has them!" said Trendellsohn. "Yes; Nina Balatka," said Madame Zamenoy. "We tell you, to the best of our knowledge at least. At any rate, they are not here."
I had written what was much better, as, for instance, Phineas Finn and Nina Balatka; but that is by no means the same thing. I also left behind, in a strong box, the manuscript of Phineas Redux, a novel of which I have already spoken, and which I subsequently sold to the proprietors of the Graphic newspaper.
Balatka feared all the Zamenoys, down to Lotta Luxa; but he feared Ziska less than he feared any other of the household. "Have you heard of Anton Trendellsohn?" "What of Anton Trendellsohn? I have been hearing of Anton Trendellsohn for the last thirty years. I have known him since he was born." "Do you wish to have him for a son-in-law?" "For a son-in-law?"
Have you wiped her tears when she wept? Have you taken from her the stings of poverty, and striven to make the world to her a pleasant garden? She has no mother of her own. Has yours been a mother to her? Why is it that Nina Balatka has cared to receive the sympathy and the love of a Jew? Ask that girl whom you saw at the door for some corner in her heart, and she will scorn you.
He would be true even to Nina Balatka though he recognised it as a paramount duty to do all in his power to save her from the Jew. He was seated at the table in the kitchen almost as soon as he had entered the house in the Windberg-gasse, and found his plate full before him.
There were many letters there, of which most were on matters of business letters which in few houses would come into the hands of such a one as Nina Balatka, but which, through the weakness of her father's health, had come into hers. Many of these she now read; some few she tore and burned in the stove, and others she tied in bundles and put back carefully into their place.
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