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Nina Balatka

CHAPTER XV
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When that day should come, would his heart be bitter within him?
"He will certainly be unhappy for a time," she said; "but he is hard and will recover, and she will console him.

It will be better so.

A Christian and a Jew should never love each other." As she stood the clouds were lifted for a moment from the face of the risen moon, and she could see by the pale clear light the whole facade of the palace as it ran along the steep hillside above her.

She could count the arches, as she had so often counted them by the same light.
They seemed to be close over her head, and she stood there thinking of them, till the clouds had again skurried across the moon's face, and she could only see the accustomed glimmer in the windows.

As her eye fell upon the well-known black buildings around her, she found that it was very dark.


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