That the girl whom he loved should love a Jew distressed and disgusted Ziska; but it did not deter him from his old purpose.

It was shocking, very shocking, that Nina should so disgrace herself; but she was not on that account less pretty or less charming in her cousin's eyes.

Madame Zamenoy, could she have had her own will, would have rescued Nina from the Jew-- firstly, because Nina was known all over Prague to be her niece--and, secondly, for the good of Christianity generally; but the girl herself, when rescued, she would willingly have left to starve in the poverty of the old house in the Kleinseite, as a punishment for her sin in having listened to a Jew.
"I would have nothing more to say to her," said the mother to her son.
"Nor I either," said Lotta, who was present.

"She has demeaned herself far too much to be a fit wife for Ziska." "Hold your tongue, Lotta; what business have you to speak about such a matter ?" said the young man.
"All the same, Ziska, if I were you, I would give her up," said the mother.
"If you were me, mother, you would not give her up.

If every man is to give up the girl he likes because somebody else interferes with him, how is anybody to get married at all?
It's the way with them all." "But a Jew, Ziska!" "So much the more reason for taking her away from him." Then Ziska went forth on a certain errand, the expediency of which he had discussed with his mother.
"I never thought he'd be so firm about it, ma'am," said Lotta to her mistress.
"If we could get Trendellsohn to turn her off, he would not think much of her afterwards," said the mother.