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Poor Miss Longestaffe! Although she had acknowledged the fact to Lady Monogram in her desire to pave the way for the reception of herself into society as a e to tell her family The man was absolutely a Jew;--not a Jew that had been, as to whoht possibly be a doubt whether he or his father or his grandfather had been the last Jew of the family; but a Jew that was So was Goldsheiner a Jehom Lady Julia Start had married,--or at any rate had been one a very short time before he ran aith that lady She counted up ever so ers of 'decent people' who had hairl of the Berrenhoffers; and Mr Hart had married a Miss Chute She did not know much of Miss Chute, but was certain that she was a Christian Lord Frederic's wife and Lady Julia Goldsheiner were seen everywhere Though she hardly kne to explain the matter even to herself, she was sure that there was at present a general heaving-up of society on this ress which would soon make it a matter of indifference whether anybody was Jew or Christian For herself she regarded the arded by the world in which she wished to live She was herself above all personal prejudices of that kind Jew, Turk, or infidel was nothing to her She had seen enough of the world to be aware that her happiness did not lie in that direction, and could not depend in the least on the religion of her husband Of course she would go to church herself She alent to church It was the proper thing to do As to her husband, though she did not suppose that she could ever get hiht that she ht be able to pass him off as a Christian She knew that such was the Christianity of young Goldsheiner, of which the Starts were now boasting

Had she been alone in the world she thought that she could have looked forward to her destiny with complacency; but she was afraid of her father and ly old-fashioned, and had so often spoken with horror even of the approach of a Jew,--and had been so loud in denouncing the iniquity of Christians who allowed such people into their houses! Unfortunately, too, Georgiana in her earlier days had re-echoed all her mother's sentiments And then her father,-- if he had ever earned for hiht to be called a Conservative politician by holding a real opinion of his own,--it had been on thatthe Jews into parlialory of England was sunk for ever And since that time, whenever creditors were more than ordinarily i for hih it was the cause of every embarrassment which had harassed hied to ue on a Saturday and carried out every other filthy abomination common to the despised people?