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Burlesques

CHAPTER XXIV
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"We have Saxon blood too in our veins," he said.

"You smile! but it is even so.

An ancestress of ours made a mesalliance in the reign of your King John.

Her name was Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York, and she married in Spain, whither she had fled to the Court of King Boabdil, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe; then a widower by the demise of his first lady, Rowena.

The match was deemed a cruel insult amongst our people but Wilfred conformed, and was a Rabbi of some note at the synagogue of Cordova.


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