Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope
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"You are a bold, bad girl!" "Perhaps I am. Father Jerome says we are all bad. And as for boldness, I have to be bold." "You are bold and brazen. Marry a Jew! It is the worst thing a Christian girl could do." "No, it is not. There are things ten times worse than that." "How you could dare to come and tell me!" "I did dare, you see. If I had not told you, you would have called me sly." "You are sly." "I am not sly. You tell me I am bad and bold and brazen." "So you are." "Very likely. I do not say I am not. But I am not sly. Now, will you let me go, aunt Sophie?" "Yes, you may go--you may go; but you may not come here again till this thing has been put an end to. Of course I shall see your father and Father Jerome, and your uncle will see the police. You will be locked up, and Anton Trendellsohn will be sent out of Bohemia. That is how it will end. Now you may go." And Nina went her way. |
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