Charles Kingsley

“ If old Miriam is once dead, her bonds die with her, don't they?'
'Alas, my lord, you do not know the customs of that accursed folk. They have a damnable practice of treating every member of their nation as a brother, and helping each freely and faithfully without reward; whereby they are enabled to plunder all the rest of the world, and thrive themselves, from the least to the greatest. ”

“ Then Miriam betrayed me knowingly!' And Orestes broke forth again into a paroxysm of fury.
'Here—call the tribune of the guard! A hundred gold pieces to the man who brings me the witch alive!'
'She will never be taken alive.'
'Dead, then—in any way! Go, you Chaldee hound! what are you hesitating about?'
'Most noble lord,' said the secretary, prostrating himself upon the floor, and kissing his master's feet in an agony of fear. . . . 'Remember, that if you touch one Jew you touch all! Remember the bonds! ”

“ I shall stick to the wisdom of my predecessors, and—oh, that Cyril may make a fool of himself to-night!'
And Cyril did make a fool of himself that night, for the first and last time in his life; and suffers for it, as wise men are wont to do when they err, to this very day and hour: but how much Orestes gained by his foe's false move cannot be decided till the end of this story ”