Poor Miss Longestaffe!  Although she had acknowledged the fact to Lady Monogram in her desire to pave the way for the reception of herself into society as a married woman, she had not as yet found courage to tell her family.  The man was absolutely a Jew;—­not a Jew that had been, as to whom there might possibly be a doubt whether he or his father or his grandfather had been the last Jew of the family; but a Jew that was.  So was Goldsheiner a Jew, whom Lady Julia Start had married,—­or at any rate had been one a very short time before he ran away with that lady.  She counted up ever so many instances on her fingers of ’decent people’ who had married Jews or Jewesses.  Lord Frederic Framlinghame had married a...