A Christian here will hardly walk with a Jew, unless it be from counter to counter, or from bank to bank.

As for their living together--or even eating in the same room--do you ever see it ?" Nina of course understood the meaning of this.

That which the girl said to her was intended to prove to her how impossible it was that she should marry a Jew, and live in Prague with a Jew as his wife; but she, who stood her ground before aunt Sophie, who had never flinched for a moment before all the threats which could be showered upon her from the Christian side, was not going to quail before the opposition of a Jewess, and that Jewess a rival! "I do not know why we should not live to see it," said Nina.
"It must take long first--very long," said Rebecca.

"Even now, Fraeulein, I fear you will think that I am very intrusive in coming to you.

I know that a Jewess has no right to push her acquaintance upon a Christian girl." The Jewess spoke very humbly of herself and of her people; but in every word she uttered there was a slight touch of irony which was not lost upon Nina.