He has practised magic spells; he has sought to corrupt a Christian's son by heresies; he has led a Christian woman into a marriage; and he has--I close with the worst--he has reared the daughter of a Christian woman, I mean his wife, a Jewess!" "Reared his child a Jewess?
Do you know that positively ?" asked the abbot.
"She bears the Jewish name of Ruth.

What I have taken the liberty to make prominent are well chosen, clearly-proved crimes, worthy of death.
Your learning is great, Reverend Abbot, but I know the old writers, too.

The Emperor Constantius made marriages between Jews and Christians punishable with death.

I can show you the passage." The abbot felt that the crime of which the Jew was accused was a heavy and unpardonable one, but he regarded only the sin, and it vexed him to see how the magistrate's zeal was exclusively turned against the unhappy criminal.

So he rose, saying with cold hauteur: "Then do your duty." "Rely upon it.