Gerard had knelt down, moved to tears, whilst the Baron triumphed like a good-natured husband who was happy to find religion establishing perfect harmony in his household.

It was related among the spectators that Eve's family, and particularly old Justus Steinberger, her father, was not in reality much displeased by the affair.

The old man sneeringly remarked, indeed, that he knew his daughter well enough to wish her to belong to his worst enemy.

In the banking business there is a class of security which one is pleased to see discounted by one's rivals.

With the stubborn hope of triumph peculiar to his race, Justus, consoling himself for the failure of his first scheme, doubtless considered that Eve would prove a powerful dissolving agent in the Christian family which she had entered, and thus help to make all wealth and power fall into the hands of the Jews.
However, Pierre's vision faded.