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Nina Balatka

CHAPTER XI
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You will find, when it is too late, that my words are true.
Have you ever known a Christian who thought it wrong to rob a Jew ?" "I do not believe that Nina would rob me." "Ah! that is the confidence of what you call love.

She is honest, you think, because she has a pretty face." "She is honest, I think, because she loves me." "Bah! Does love make men honest, or women either?
Do we not see every day how these Christians rob each other in their money dealings when they are marrying?
What was the girl's name ?--old Thibolski's daughter -- how they robbed her when they married her, and how her people tried their best to rob the lad she married.

Did we not see it all ?" "It was not the girl who did it--not the girl herself." "Why should a woman be honester than a man?
I tell you, Anton, that this girl has the deed." "Ziska Zamenoy has told you so ?" "Yes, he has told me.

But I am not a man to be deceived because such a one as Ziska wishes to deceive me.

You, at least, know me better than that.


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