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"Always Bram has been prooes with it"

"That is the truth; but I will tell you soiven by the Jews of Middleburg to ave them when he was mayor of

the city Bram is very often with Miriam Cohen, and"-Then Joris stopped, and Lysbet waited anxiously for him to finish the

sentence; but he only puffed, puffed, and looked thoughtfully at the

bowl of his pipe

"What mean you, Joris?"

"I think that he loves her"

"Well?"

"That he would like to s that are impossible, man would like to do: that is most

impossible of all"

"You think so?"

"I am sure of it"

"Not impossible was it for Katherine to marry one not of her own race"

"In my mind it is not race so much as faith Far more than race, faith

claims"

"Hyde is a Lutheran"

"A Lutheran e no man, Lysbet I have knos that were better Christians

than some baptized in the nareat Jew, loved God, and did to their fellow-creatures as they