"
"I will never give him up--never. I would sooner die."
"Very well. Then I shall know how to act. You will not be a bit nearer
marrying him; I can promise you that. You are mistaken if you think
that in such a matter as this a girl like you can do just as she
pleases." Then she turned again upon the poor man in bed. "Josef
Balatka, I am ashamed of you. I am indeed--I am ashamed of you."
"Aunt Sophie," said Nina, "now that you are here, you can say what you
please to me; but you might as well spare father."
"I will not spare him. I am ashamed of him--thoroughly ashamed of him.
What can I think of him when he will lie there and not say a word to
save his daughter from the machinations of a filthy Jew?"
"Anton Trendellsohn is not a filthy Jew."
"He is a robber. He has cheated your father out of everything."
"He is no robber. He has cheated no one. I know who has cheated father,
if you come to that."
"Whom do you mean, hussey?"
"I shall not answer you; but you need not tell me any more about the
Jews cheating us.
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