"
"Why should you seek a Christian wife, with such maidens among you as
her whom I saw at the door?"
"Do not mind the maiden whom you saw at the door. She is nothing to
you."
"No; she is nothing to me. Of course, the lady is nothing to me. If I
were to come here looking for her, you would be angry, and would bid me
seek for beauty among my own people. Would you not do so? Answer me
now."
"Like enough. Rebecca Loth has many friends who would take her part."
"And why should we not take Nina's part--we who are her friends?"
"Have you taken her part? Have you comforted her when she was in
sorrow? Have you wiped her tears when she wept? Have you taken from her
the stings of poverty, and striven to make the world to her a pleasant
garden? She has no mother of her own. Has yours been a mother to her?
Why is it that Nina Balatka has cared to receive the sympathy and the
love of a Jew? Ask that girl whom you saw at the door for some corner
in her heart, and she will scorn you. She, a Jewess, will scorn you, a
Christian.
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