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"I will ask no one, aunt Sophie, because I love Anton Trendellsohn, and
have told him that I love him."
"Pshaw!"
"I have nothing more to say, aunt. I thought it right to tell you, and
now I will go."
She had turned to the door, and had her hand upon the lock when her
aunt stopped her. "Wait a moment, Nina. You have had your say; now you
must hear me."
"I will hear you if you say nothing against him."
"I shall say what I please."
"Then I will not hear you." Nina again made for the door, but her aunt
intercepted her retreat. "Of course you can stop me, aunt, in that way
if you choose."
"You bold, bad girl!"
"You may say what you please about myself."
"You are a bold, bad girl!"
"Perhaps I am. Father Jerome says we are all bad. And as for boldness,
I have to be bold."
"You are bold and brazen. Marry a Jew! It is the worst thing a
Christian girl could do."
"No, it is not. There are things ten times worse than that."
"How you could dare to come and tell me!"
"I did dare, you see. If I had not told you, you would have called me
sly.


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