And it was all very fine for me to be converted, my daughter is none the less 'the daughter of the Jewess,' as folks so often say.

Ah! my Gerard, I am so proud of you, that it would rend my heart to see you lowered, degraded almost, by a marriage for money with a girl who is deformed, who is unworthy of you and whom you could never love." He raised his eyes and looked at her entreatingly, anxious as he was to be spared such painful talk.

"But haven't I sworn to you, that you are the only one I love ?" he said.

"Haven't I sworn that I would never marry her! It's all over.

Don't let us torture ourselves any longer." Their glances met and lingered on one another, instinct with all the misery which they dared not express in words.