But she played him yet awhile, compelling him
in his turn to conquer the reluctance which his earlier
hesitation had begotten in her, until it was he who pleaded
insistently for this Jewish marriage that filled him with such
repugnance.
And so at last she yielded, and led him up to that bower of hers
in which the conspirators had met.
"Where is the Rabbi?" he asked impatiently, looking round that
empty room.
"I will summon him if you are quite sure that you desire him."
"Sure? Have I not protested enough? Can you still doubt me?"
"No," she said. She stood apart, conning him steadily. "Yet I
would not have it supposed that you were in any way coerced to
this." They were odd words; but he heeded not their oddness. He
was hardly master of the wits which in themselves were never of
the brightest. "I require you to declare that it is your own
desire that our marriage should be solemnized in accordance with
the Jewish rites and the law of Moses."
And he, fretted now by impatience, anxious to have this thing
done and ended, made answer hastily:
"Why, to be sure I do declare it to be my wish that we should be
so married--in the Jewish manner, and in accordance with the law
of Moses.
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