He accused himself of having been foolishly soft-
hearted in his transactions with this Christian, and reminded himself
from time to time that no Jew in Prague would have been so treated by
any Christian. And what was the return made to him? Among them they had
now secreted that of which he should have enforced the rendering before
he had parted with his own money; and this they did because they knew
that he would be unwilling to take harsh legal proceedings against a
bed-ridden old man! In this frame of mind he went to the Ross Markt,
and there he was assured over and over again by Ziska Zamenoy--for
Karil Zamenoy was not to be seen--that Nina Balatka had the deed in her
own keeping. The name of Nina Balatka was becoming very grievous to the
old man. Even he, when the matter had first been broached to him, had
not recognised all the evils which would come from a marriage between
his son and a Christian maiden; but of late his neighbours had been
around him, and he had looked into the thing, and his eyes had been
opened, and he had declared to himself that he would not take a
Christian girl into his house as his daughter-in-law.
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