"As I was saying to you, Andrew, be kind and generous as you always used to be. Don`t judge Lise harshly," she began. "She is so sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one."

"As I say?" echoed the Jew; "O! believe it, I say but the truth; I am a plundered, indebted, distressed man. Hard hands have wrung from me my goods, my money, my ships, and all that I possessed---Yet I can tell thee what thou lackest, and, it may be, supply it too. Thy wish even now is for a horse and armour."