"She will be a bone of contention in your way that will separate you from all your friends.
You will become neither Jew nor Christian, and will be odious alike to both.

And she will be the same." "Then, father, we will bear our sorrows together." "Yes; and what happens when sorrows come from such causes?
The man learns to hate the woman who has caused them, and ill-uses her, and feels himself to be a Cain upon the earth, condemned by all, but by none so much as by himself.

Do you think that you have strength to bear the contempt of all those around you ?" Anton waited a moment or two before he answered, and then spoke very slowly.

"If it be necessary to bear so much, I will at least make the effort.

It may be that I shall find the strength." "Nothing then that your father says to you avails aught ?" "Nothing, father, on that matter.