"Meseems, my young Jew, that you would crush me to powder.

Let me live a little longer in this pleasant land of Egypt.

I shall not harm you.

You are much too beautiful a child for that." He stopped, and then continued in a different tone: "Wait, and look more closely at Pharaoh, and see if he is really so terribly wicked, and whether it would be so dreadful to live in his palace and hand him the goblet when he is thirsty.

Well?
Be assured, old man, I shall do you no violence.