Why do you not ask me to drink your health?
My pretty prince, you look most ill and have need of my good wishes." "Dominus!" said the other, trembling with anxiety.
"Dominus!" the old emperor shouted, angrily.

"Call me ass, if you dare, but never call me 'Dominus.'" "You honor me, great father," said the young man, his eyes staring with terror, "but I beg you to excuse me for a little time." "Ah, so you would leave me," said the sly emperor, in his mildest tones.

"A most inhospitable wretch, indeed." The tall Jew was now pale with fright.

His feeling showed in great beads of perspiration.

He dared not to stay; he dared not to go.