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"Then I will take it for kindness," said Nina.
"Why should there be quarrelling among relatives?" said the old man
from among the bed-clothes.
"Why, indeed?" said Ziska.
"Why, indeed," said Nina, "--if it could be helped?"
She knew that the outward serenity of the words spoken was too good to
be a fair representation of thoughts below in the mind of any of them.
It could not be that Ziska had come there to express even his own
consent to her marriage with Anton Trendellsohn; and without such
consent there must of necessity be a continuation of quarrelling. "Have
you been speaking to father, Ziska, about those papers?" Nina was
determined that there should be no glozing of matters, no soft words
used effectually to stop her in her projected course. So she rushed at
once at the subject which she thought most important in Ziska's
presence.
"What papers?" said Ziska.
"The papers which belong to Anton Trendellsohn about this house and the
others. They are his, and you would not wish to keep things which
belong to another, even though he should be a--Jew.


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