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Since her sister's death and the days in which the Balatkas had been prosperous, she had preferred that all intercourse between the two families should take place at her own house; and thus, as Josef Balatka himself rarely left his own door, she had not seen him for more than two years.
Let me at any rate hear you say that you have forbidden it." But Balatka found silence to be his easiest course, and answered not at all. "What am I to think of this?" continued Madame Zamenoy. "It cannot be that you wish your child to be the wife of a Jew!" "You are to think, aunt Sophie, that father is ill, and that he cannot stand against your violence." "Violence, you wicked girl!
"So you are going there again?" her father said. "Yes, I must see them. I told you that I had a commission from them to the Zamenoys, which I have performed, and I must let them know what I did. Besides, father, if this man is to be my husband, is it not well that I should see him?" Old Balatka groaned, but said nothing further, and Nina went forth to the Jews' quarter.
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.
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.
He was a good-looking well-grown young man, not very wise, quickly susceptible to female influences, and gifted with eyes capable of convincing him that Nina Balatka was by far the prettiest woman whom he ever saw.
In 1865 I began a short tale called Nina Balatka, which in 1866 was published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine. In 1867 this was followed by another of the same length, called Linda Tressel. I will speak of them together, as they are of the same nature and of nearly equal merit. Mr.
"Souchey, I wonder you should speak like that before father," said Nina. "And why shouldn't he speak?" said Balatka. "I think he has as much right as any one." "He has no right to make things worse than they are." "I don't know how I could do that, Nina," said the servant. "What made you take that money back to your aunt?" "I didn't take it back to my aunt." "Well, to any of the family then?
"All the priests in Prague cannot hinder it," said Nina. "That is true," said Balatka. "We shall see," said Souchey. "And in the mean time what is the good of fighting with the Zamenoys? They are your only friends, Nina, and therefore you take delight in quarrelling with them. When people have money, they should be allowed to have a little pride."
"To-morrow father," she said, "I will talk to you more about this, and you shall not at any rate say that I keep anything from you." "I have never said so, Nina." "It is late now, father. Will you not go to bed?" Old Balatka yielded to this suggestion, and went to his bed; and Nina, after some hour or two, went to hers.
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