"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. But he looked as though he thought that his life were in danger among us."
"But, Anton, what had he to say?"
"I will tell you. He wanted to buy me off."
"Buy you off!"