‘And a Jew?’ He again asked the horrid question, and again threw in the thunder.  On this occasion she condescended to make no further reply.  ’If you do, you shall do it as an alien from my house.  I certainly will never see him.  Tell him not to come to me, for I certainly will not speak to him.  You are degraded and disgraced; but you shall not degrade and disgrace me and your mother and sister.’

‘It was you, papa, who told me to go to the Melmottes.’

’That is not true.  I wanted you to stay at Caversham.  A Jew! an old fat Jew!  Heavens and earth! that it should be possible that you should think of it!  You;—­my daughter,—­that used to take such...