I say what I mean, neither more nor less.

If this bust were shown in Rome, together with yourself who sat for it, the lady Miriam would find herself famous within a week.

Yes," and he ran his eye quickly over various statuettes, some of them baked and some in the raw clay, models, for the most part, of camels or other animals or birds, "yes, and it is the same with all the rest: these are the works of genius, no less." At this praise, to them so exaggerated, Miriam, pleased as she could not help feeling, broke into clear laugher, which both Ithiel and Nehushta echoed.

Now, so wroth was he, the face of Marcus grew quite pale and stern.
"It seems," he said severely, "that it is not I who mock.

Tell me, lady, what do you with these things ?" and he pointed to the statuettes.
"I, sir?
I sell them; or at least my uncles do." "The money is given to the poor," interposed Ithiel.
"Would it be rude to ask at what price ?" "Sometimes," replied Ithiel with pride, "travellers have given me as much as a silver shekel.[*] Once indeed, for a group of camels with their Arabian drivers, I received four shekels; but that took my niece three months to do." [*] About 2s.6d.of English money.
"A shekel! Four shekels!" said Marcus in a voice of despair; "I will buy them all--no, I will not, it would be robbery.