"I am no slave and no weakling; you shall not murder me or thrust me away.

I am your wife and your equal, aye, and stronger than you in body and in mind, and I will have my rights in the face of God and man." "Certainly," he said with a kind of unwilling admiration--"certainly you are no weakling.

Certainly, also, you have paid back all you owe me with a Jew's interest.

Or, mayhap, you are not so clever as I think, but just a strong-minded fool, and it is that accursed Inez who has settled her debts.

Oh! to think of it," and he shook his fist in the air, "to think that I believed myself married to the Dona Margaret, and find you in her place--_you_!" "Be silent," she said, "you man without shame, who first fly at the throat of your new-wedded wife and then insult her by saying that you wish you were wedded to another woman.