Allow me, therefore, to return by your hands this manuscript of his with many thanks from me to that daughter of yours, by whose perpetual imprisonment you intend to give pleasure to your Deity.

Henceforth the less communication which passes between me and any member of your family, the better.' And he turned away.
'But, my dear sir!' said the honest soldier, really chagrined, 'you must not!--we owe you too much, and love you too well, to part thus for the caprice of a moment.

If any word of mine has offended you--forget it, and forgive me, I beseech you!' and he caught both Raphael's hands in his own.
'My very dear sir,' answered the Jew quietly; 'let me ask the same forgiveness of you; and believe me, for the sake of past pleasant passages, I shall not forget my promise about the mortgage....

But-here we must part.

To tell you the truth, I half an hour ago was fearfully near becoming neither more nor less than a Christian.