No.
father; she shall not be taken from me.

I love her, and I will keep her." Oh that Nina could have heard him! How would all her sorrows have fled from her, and left her happy in her poverty! But Anton Trendellsohn, though he could speak after this manner to his father, could hardly bring himself to talk of his feelings to the woman who would have given her eyes, could she for his sake have spared them, to hear him.

Now and again, indeed, he would say a word, and then would frown and become gloomy, as though angry with himself for such outward womanly expression of what he felt.

As it was, the words fell upon ears which they delighted not.

"Then, my son, you will live to rue the day in which you first saw her," said the elder Jew.