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A Word Only A Word
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CHAPTER VIII
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A Christian widow educated her in the physician's country-house, not in the city.

When the young doctor returned from Coimbra, he saw her there more than once--more than once; certainly, more often than was good for him.

The devil had a finger in the matter.
I know, too, how they were married.

Before one Jew and two Christian witnesses, they plighted their troth to each other, and exchanged rings--rings as if it were a Christian ceremony, though he remained a Jew and she a Christian.

He intended to go to the Netherlands with her, but one of the witnesses betrayed them--denounced them to the Holy Inquisition.


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