![]() "Holy Abraham!" he exclaimed, "he is a good youth, and my heart bleeds to see the gore trickle down his rich embroidered hacqueton, and his corslet of goodly price-but to carry him to our house!-damsel, hast thou well considered?-he is a Christian, and by our law we may not deal with the stranger and Gentile, save for the advantage of our commerce." But he had also the prejudices and scrupulous timidity of his persecuted people, and those were to be conquered. ![]() It would not have been difficult to have persuaded Isaac to this step in any other circumstances, for his disposition was kind and grateful. His own intelligence may indeed have easily anticipated that, when Ivanhoe sunk down, and seemed abandoned by all the world, it was the importunity of Rebecca which prevailed on her father to have the gallant young warrior transported from the lists to the house which for the time the Jews inhabited in the suburbs of Ashby. ![]() Our history must needs retrograde for the space of a few pages, to inform the reader of certain passages material to his understanding the rest of this important narrative.
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