"
"You'll have to be servant to a Jew now."
"No; I'll never be that."
"I suppose he gives you something at odd times?"
"Who? Trendellsohn? I never saw the colour of his money yet, and do not
wish to see it."
"But he comes here--sometimes?"
"Never, Lotta. I haven't seen Anton Trendellsohn within the doors these
six months."
"But she goes to him?"
"Yes; she goes to him."
"That's worse--a deal worse."
"I told her how it was when I saw her trotting off so often to the
Jews' quarter. 'You see too much of Anton Trendellsohn,' I said to her;
but it didn't do any good."
"You should have come to us, and have told us."
"What, Madame there? I could never have brought myself to that; she is
so upsetting, Lotta."
"She is upsetting, no doubt; but she don't upset me. Why didn't you
tell me, Souchey?"
"Well, I thought that if I said a word to her, perhaps that would be
enough. Who could believe that she would throw herself at once into a
Jew's arms--such a fellow as Anton Trendellsohn, too, old enough to be
her father, and she the bonniest girl in all Prague?"
"Handsome is that handsome does, Souchey.
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