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"
Now
,
in
faith
,
"
said
Wamba
,
"
I
can
not
see
that
the
worshippers
of
Mahound
and
Termagaunt
have
so
greatly
the
advantage
over
the
people
once
chosen
of
Heaven
.
"
"
He
shall
sit
with
thee
,
Wamba
,
"
said
Cedric
;
"
the
fool
and
the
knave
will
be
well
met
.
"
"
The
fool
,
"
answered
Wamba
,
raising
the
relics
of
a
gammon
of
bacon
,
"
will
take
care
to
erect
a
bulwark
against
the
knave
.
"
"
Hush
,
"
said
Cedric
,
"
for
here
he
comes
.
"
Introduced
with
little
ceremony
,
and
advancing
with
fear
and
hesitation
,
and
many
a
bow
of
deep
humility
,
a
tall
thin
old
man
,
who
,
however
,
had
lost
by
the
habit
of
stooping
much
of
his
actual
height
,
approached
the
lower
end
of
the
board
.
His
features
,
keen
and
regular
,
with
an
aquiline
nose
,
and
piercing
black
eyes
;
his
high
and
wrinkled
forehead
,
and
long
grey
hair
and
beard
,
would
have
been
considered
as
handsome
,
had
they
not
been
the
marks
of
a
physiognomy
peculiar
to
a
race
,
which
,
during
those
dark
ages
,
was
alike
detested
by
the
credulous
and
prejudiced
vulgar
,
and
persecuted
by
the
greedy
and
rapacious
nobility
,
and
who
,
perhaps
,
owing
to
that
very
hatred
and
persecution
,
had
adopted
a
national
character
,
in
which
there
was
much
,
to
say
the
least
,
mean
and
unamiable
.
The
Jew
's
dress
,
which
appeared
to
have
suffered
considerably
from
the
storm
,
was
a
plain
russet
cloak
of
many
folds
,
covering
a
dark
purple
tunic
.
He
had
large
boots
lined
with
fur
,
and
a
belt
around
his
waist
,
which
sustained
a
small
knife
,
together
with
a
case
for
writing
materials
,
but
no
weapon
.
He
wore
a
high
square
yellow
cap
of
a
peculiar
fashion
,
assigned
to
his
nation
to
distinguish
them
from
Christians
,
and
which
he
doffed
with
great
humility
at
the
door
of
the
hall
.
The
reception
of
this
person
in
the
hall
of
Cedric
the
Saxon
,
was
such
as
might
have
satisfied
the
most
prejudiced
enemy
of
the
tribes
of
Israel
.
Cedric
himself
coldly
nodded
in
answer
to
the
Jew
's
repeated
salutations
,
and
signed
to
him
to
take
place
at
the
lower
end
of
the
table
,
where
,
however
,
no
one
offered
to
make
room
for
him
.
On
the
contrary
,
as
he
passed
along
the
file
,
casting
a
timid
supplicating
glance
,
and
turning
towards
each
of
those
who
occupied
the
lower
end
of
the
board
,
the
Saxon
domestics
squared
their
shoulders
,
and
continued
to
devour
their
supper
with
great
perseverance
,
paying
not
the
least
attention
to
the
wants
of
the
new
guest
.
The
attendants
of
the
Abbot
crossed
themselves
,
with
looks
of
pious
horror
,
and
the
very
heathen
Saracens
,
as
Isaac
drew
near
them
,
curled
up
their
whiskers
with
indignation
,
and
laid
their
hands
on
their
poniards
,
as
if
ready
to
rid
themselves
by
the
most
desperate
means
from
the
apprehended
contamination
of
his
nearer
approach
.
Probably
the
same
motives
which
induced
Cedric
to
open
his
hall
to
this
son
of
a
rejected
people
,
would
have
made
him
insist
on
his
attendants
receiving
Isaac
with
more
courtesy
.
But
the
Abbot
had
,
at
this
moment
,
engaged
him
in
a
most
interesting
discussion
on
the
breed
and
character
of
his
favourite
hounds
,
which
he
would
not
have
interrupted
for
matters
of
much
greater
importance
than
that
of
a
Jew
going
to
bed
supperless
.
While
Isaac
thus
stood
an
outcast
in
the
present
society
,
like
his
people
among
the
nations
,
looking
in
vain
for
welcome
or
resting
place
,
the
pilgrim
who
sat
by
the
chimney
took
compassion
upon
him
,
and
resigned
his
seat
,
saying
briefly
,
"
Old
man
,
my
garments
are
dried
,
my
hunger
is
appeased
,
thou
art
both
wet
and
fasting
.
"
So
saying
,
he
gathered
together
,
and
brought
to
a
flame
,
the
decaying
brands
which
lay
scattered
on
the
ample
hearth
;
took
from
the
larger
board
a
mess
of
pottage
and
seethed
kid
,
placed
it
upon
the
small
table
at
which
he
had
himself
supped
,
and
,
without
waiting
the
Jew
's
thanks
,
went
to
the
other
side
of
the
hall
;
--
whether
from
unwillingness
to
hold
more
close
communication
with
the
object
of
his
benevolence
,
or
from
a
wish
to
draw
near
to
the
upper
end
of
the
table
,
seemed
uncertain
.
