Yes, and when I press for marriage, she says it cannot be for a long while yet, because she is mourning for her father; her father forsooth, whom she never forgave because he betrothed her to me according to the custom of our people." "Perhaps she loves some other man ?" I queried, wishing to learn all I could about this lady.
"She loves no man, or did not a while ago.

She loves herself alone." "One with so much beauty may look high in marriage." "High!" he replied furiously.

"How can she look higher than myself who am a lord of the line of Judah, and therefore greater far than an upstart prince or any other Egyptian, were he Pharaoh himself ?" "Surely you must be trumpeter to your tribe," I mocked, for my temper was rising.
"Why ?" he asked.

"Are not the Hebrews greater than the Egyptians, as those oppressors soon shall learn, and is not a lord of Israel more than any idol-worshipper among your people ?" I looked at the man clad in mean garments and foul from his labour in the brickfield, marvelling at his insolence.

There was no doubt but that he believed what he said; I could see it in his proud eye and bearing.
He thought that his tribe was of more import in the world than our great and ancient nation, and that he, an unknown youth, equalled or surpassed Pharaoh himself.