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She
left
the
room
as
she
spoke
,
her
features
writhed
into
a
sort
of
sneering
laugh
,
which
made
them
seem
even
more
hideous
than
their
habitual
frown
.
She
locked
the
door
behind
her
,
and
Rebecca
might
hear
her
curse
every
step
for
its
steepness
,
as
slowly
and
with
difficulty
she
descended
the
turret-stair
.
Rebecca
was
now
to
expect
a
fate
even
more
dreadful
than
that
of
Rowena
;
for
what
probability
was
there
that
either
softness
or
ceremony
would
be
used
towards
one
of
her
oppressed
race
,
whatever
shadow
of
these
might
be
preserved
towards
a
Saxon
heiress
?
Yet
had
the
Jewess
this
advantage
,
that
she
was
better
prepared
by
habits
of
thought
,
and
by
natural
strength
of
mind
,
to
encounter
the
dangers
to
which
she
was
exposed
.
Of
a
strong
and
observing
character
,
even
from
her
earliest
years
,
the
pomp
and
wealth
which
her
father
displayed
within
his
walls
,
or
which
she
witnessed
in
the
houses
of
other
wealthy
Hebrews
,
had
not
been
able
to
blind
her
to
the
precarious
circumstances
under
which
they
were
enjoyed
.
Like
Damocles
at
his
celebrated
banquet
,
Rebecca
perpetually
beheld
,
amid
that
gorgeous
display
,
the
sword
which
was
suspended
over
the
heads
of
her
people
by
a
single
hair
.
These
reflections
had
tamed
and
brought
down
to
a
pitch
of
sounder
judgment
a
temper
,
which
,
under
other
circumstances
,
might
have
waxed
haughty
,
supercilious
,
and
obstinate
.
"
From
her
father
's
example
and
injunctions
,
Rebecca
had
learnt
to
bear
herself
courteously
towards
all
who
approached
her
.
She
could
not
indeed
imitate
his
excess
of
subservience
,
because
she
was
a
stranger
to
the
meanness
of
mind
,
and
to
the
constant
state
of
timid
apprehension
,
by
which
it
was
dictated
;
but
she
bore
herself
with
a
proud
humility
,
as
if
submitting
to
the
evil
circumstances
in
which
she
was
placed
as
the
daughter
of
a
despised
race
,
while
she
felt
in
her
mind
the
consciousness
that
she
was
entitled
to
hold
a
higher
rank
from
her
merit
,
than
the
arbitrary
despotism
of
religious
prejudice
permitted
her
to
aspire
to
.
Thus
prepared
to
expect
adverse
circumstances
,
she
had
acquired
the
firmness
necessary
for
acting
under
them
.
Her
present
situation
required
all
her
presence
of
mind
,
and
she
summoned
it
up
accordingly
.
Her
first
care
was
to
inspect
the
apartment
;
but
it
afforded
few
hopes
either
of
escape
or
protection
.
It
contained
neither
secret
passage
nor
trap-door
,
and
unless
where
the
door
by
which
she
had
entered
joined
the
main
building
,
seemed
to
be
circumscribed
by
the
round
exterior
wall
of
the
turret
.
The
door
had
no
inside
bolt
or
bar
.
The
single
window
opened
upon
an
embattled
space
surmounting
the
turret
,
which
gave
Rebecca
,
at
first
sight
,
some
hopes
of
escaping
;
but
she
soon
found
it
had
no
communication
with
any
other
part
of
the
battlements
,
being
an
isolated
bartisan
,
or
balcony
,
secured
,
as
usual
,
by
a
parapet
,
with
embrasures
,
at
which
a
few
archers
might
be
stationed
for
defending
the
turret
,
and
flanking
with
their
shot
the
wall
of
the
castle
on
that
side
.
There
was
therefore
no
hope
but
in
passive
fortitude
,
and
in
that
strong
reliance
on
Heaven
natural
to
great
and
generous
characters
.
Rebecca
,
however
erroneously
taught
to
interpret
the
promises
of
Scripture
to
the
chosen
people
of
Heaven
,
did
not
err
in
supposing
the
present
to
be
their
hour
of
trial
,
or
in
trusting
that
the
children
of
Zion
would
be
one
day
called
in
with
the
fulness
of
the
Gentiles
.
In
the
meanwhile
,
all
around
her
showed
that
their
present
state
was
that
of
punishment
and
probation
,
and
that
it
was
their
especial
duty
to
suffer
without
sinning
.
Thus
prepared
to
consider
herself
as
the
victim
of
misfortune
,
Rebecca
had
early
reflected
upon
her
own
state
,
and
schooled
her
mind
to
meet
the
dangers
which
she
had
probably
to
encounter
.
The
prisoner
trembled
,
however
,
and
changed
colour
,
when
a
step
was
heard
on
the
stair
,
and
the
door
of
the
turret-chamber
slowly
opened
,
and
a
tall
man
,
dressed
as
one
of
those
banditti
to
whom
they
owed
their
misfortune
,
slowly
entered
,
and
shut
the
door
behind
him
;
his
cap
,
pulled
down
upon
his
brows
,
concealed
the
upper
part
of
his
face
,
and
he
held
his
mantle
in
such
a
manner
as
to
muffle
the
rest
.
In
this
guise
,
as
if
prepared
for
the
execution
of
some
deed
,
at
the
thought
of
which
he
was
himself
ashamed
,
he
stood
before
the
affrighted
prisoner
;
yet
,
ruffian
as
his
dress
bespoke
him
,
he
seemed
at
a
loss
to
express
what
purpose
had
brought
him
thither
,
so
that
Rebecca
,
making
an
effort
upon
herself
,
had
time
to
anticipate
his
explanation
.
She
had
already
unclasped
two
costly
bracelets
and
a
collar
,
which
she
hastened
to
proffer
to
the
supposed
outlaw
,
concluding
naturally
that
to
gratify
his
avarice
was
to
bespeak
his
favour
.
"
Take
these
,
"
she
said
,
"
good
friend
,
and
for
God
's
sake
be
merciful
to
me
and
my
aged
father
!
These
ornaments
are
of
value
,
yet
are
they
trifling
to
what
he
would
bestow
to
obtain
our
dismissal
from
this
castle
,
free
and
uninjured
.
"
"
Fair
flower
of
Palestine
,
"
replied
the
outlaw
,
"
these
pearls
are
orient
,
but
they
yield
in
whiteness
to
your
teeth
;
the
diamonds
are
brilliant
,
but
they
can
not
match
your
eyes
;
and
ever
since
I
have
taken
up
this
wild
trade
,
I
have
made
a
vow
to
prefer
beauty
to
wealth
.
"
