"But go on with your story." "Old Doctor Rodrigo was the Netherlander's physician, and closed his eyes on the death-bed.

An orphan was left, a girl, who had not a single relative in Porto.

They said--I mean the young doctors and students who had seen her--that she was pleasing, very pleasing to the eye.

But it was not on that account, but because she was orphaned and desolate, that the physician took the child--I mean the girl." "And reared her as a Jewess ?" interrupted the magistrate, with a questioning glance.
"As a Jewess ?" replied the monk, excitedly.

"Who says so?
He did nothing of the sort.