refining influences in their surroundings. We look for and excuse these
signs; many Christians take them as the inevitable marks of the race, and
without looking further, conclude that a cultured Jew is an impossibility."

"Mr. Levice, I am but an atom in the Christian world, and you who number so
many of them among your friends should not make such sweeping assertions.
The world is narrow-minded; individuals are broader."

"True; but I speak of the majority, who decide the vote, and by whom my
child would be, without doubt, ostracized. This only by your people; by
ours it would be worse, --for she will have raised a terrible barrier by
renouncing her religion."

"I shall never renounce my religion, Father."

"Such a marriage would mean only that to the world; and so you would be cut
adrift from both sides, as all women are who move from where they
rightfully belong to where they are not wanted."

"Sir," interrupted Kemp, "allow me to show you wherein such a state of
affairs would, if it should happen, be of no consequence. The friends we
care for and who care for us will not drop off if we remain unchanged.
Because I love your daughter and she loves me, and because we both desire
our love to be honored in the sight of God and man, wherein have we erred?
We shall still remain the same man and woman."

"Unhappily the world would not think so."

"Then let them hold to their bigoted opinion; it is valueless, and having
each other, we can dispense with them."