We are very sharp, each on the other, dealing against each other always
in hatred, never in love--never even in friendship."
"But, for all that, my father has never wronged you."
"He should not do so, for I am endeavouring to be kind to him. For your
sake, Nina, I would treat him as though he were a Jew himself."
"He has never wronged you; I am sure that he has never wronged you."
"Nina, you are more to me than you are to him."
"Yes. I am--I am your own; but yet I will declare that he has never
wronged you."
"And I should be more to you than he is."
"You are more--you are everything to me; but, still, I know that he has
never wronged you."
Then the Jew paused again, still walking onwards through the dark
colonnade with her hand upon his arm. They walked in silence the whole
side of the large square. Nina waiting patiently to hear what would
come next, and Trendellsohn considering what words he would use. He did
suspect her father, and it was needful to his purpose that he should
tell her so; and it was needful also, as he thought, that she should be
made to understand that in her loyalty and truth to him she must give
up her father, or even suspect her father, if his purpose required that
she should do so.
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