The foreign blood was proved, and that would suffice.

As he looked at Lopez he thought that he detected Jewish signs, but he was afraid to make any allusion to religion, lest Lopez should declare that his ancestors had been noted as Christians since St.James first preached in the Peninsula.
"I was educated altogether in England," continued Lopez, "till I was sent to a German university in the idea that the languages of the continent are not generally well learned in this country.

I can never be sufficiently thankful to my guardian for doing so." "I dare say;--I dare say.

French and German are very useful.

I have a prejudice of my own in favour of Greek and Latin." "But I rather fancy I picked up more Greek and Latin at Bohn than I should have got here, had I stuck to nothing else." "I dare say;--I dare say.