"
"I suppose they did not say anything very pleasant about me."
"They did not say anything very pleasant about anybody or about
anything. They were not very anxious to be pleasant; but that I did
not mind."
"I hope they did not insult you, Anton?"
"We Jews are used as yet to insolence from Christians, and do not mind
it."
They shall never more be anything to me, if they have insulted you."
"It is nothing, Nina. We bear those things, and think that such of you
Christians as use that liberty of a vulgar tongue, which is still
possible towards a Jew in Prague, are simply poor in heart and
ignorant."
"They are poor in heart and ignorant."
"I first went to your uncle's office in the Ross Markt, where I saw him
and your aunt and Ziska. And afterwards Ziska came to me, at our own
house. He was tame enough then."
"To your own house?"
"Yes; to the Jews' quarter. Was it not a condescension? He came into
our synagogue and ferreted me out. You may be sure that he had
something very special to say when he did that.
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