He shall have the wealth which is his own, but he shall not have it here.

Ah! if he would but take that other one as his bride, he should have everything, and his father's blessing--and then he would be the first instead of the last among his people." Such was the purpose of Stephen Trendellsohn towards his son; but this, his real purpose, did not hinder him from threatening worse things.

To prevent the marriage was his great object; and if threats would prevent it, why should he not use them?
But now he had conceived the idea that Nina was deceiving his son--that Nina was in truth holding back the deed with some view which he could hardly fathom.

Ziska Zamenoy had declared, with all the emphasis in his power, that the document was, to the best of his belief, in Nina's hands; and though Ziska's emphasis would not have gone far in convincing the Jew, had the Jew's mind been turned in the other direction, now it had its effect.

"And who gave it her ?" Trendellsohn had asked.