If that is what you have to come to do, you may as well return." "But listen to me, my friend," said Ziska, taking a leaf out of the Jew's book.

"Only listen to me, and then I shall go." "Speak, then, and I will listen; but be quick." "You want, of course, to be made right about those houses ?" "My father, to whom they belong, wishes to be made right, as you call it." "It is all the same thing.

Now, look here.

The truth is this.
Everything shall be settled for you, and the whole thing given up regularly into your hands, if you will only give over about Nina Balatka." "But I will not give over about Nina Balatka.

Am I to be bribed out of my love by an offer of that which is already mine own?
But that you are in my father's house, I would be wrathful with you for making me such an offer." "Why should you seek a Christian wife, with such maidens among you as her whom I saw at the door ?" "Do not mind the maiden whom you saw at the door.