At the present moment she was dressed in a frock of white muslin, looped round the skirt, and bright with ruby ribbons.

She had on her feet coloured boots, which fitted them to a marvel, and on her glossy hair a small new hat, ornamented with the plumage of some strange bird.

On her shoulders she wore a coloured jacket, open down the front, sparkling with jewelled buttons, over which there hung a chain with a locket.

In her ears she carried long heavy earrings of gold.

Were it not that Ziska had seen others as gay in their apparel on his way, he would have fancied that she was tricked out for the playing of some special part, and that she should hardly have shown herself in the streets with her gala finery.
Such was Rebecca Loth the Jewess, and Ziska almost admitted to himself that she was more beautiful than Nina Balatka.
"And are you also of the family ?" Ziska asked.
"No; she is not of the family," said Ruth.