We are starving, or next to it, and yet you wonder that she should be willing to marry an honest man who has plenty of money." "But he is a Jew!" "Yes; he is a Jew.

I know that." "And Nina knows it." "Of course she does.

Do you go home and eat nothing for a week, and then see whether a Jew's bread will poison you." "But to marry him, uncle Josef!" "It is very bad.

I know it is bad, but what can I do?
If she says she will do it, how can I help it?
She has been a good child to me--a very good child; and am I to lie here and see her starve?
You would not give to your dog the morsel of bread which she ate this morning before she went out." All this was a new light to Ziska.

He knew that his uncle and cousin were very poor, and had halted in his love because he was ashamed of their poverty; but he had never thought of them as people hungry from want of food, or cold from want of clothes.