She could not indeed imitate his excess of subservience, because she was a stranger to the meanness of mind, and to the constant state of timid apprehension, by which it was dictated; but she bore herself with a proud humility, as if submitting to the evil circumstances in which she was placed as the daughter of a despised race, while she felt in her mind the consciousness that she was entitled to hold a higher rank from her merit, than the arbitrary despotism of religious prejudice permitted her to aspire to.
De büszke alázatossággal viselkedett, mintha alávetné magát a kedvezőtlen körülmé­nyeknek, amelyekbe - mint egy üldözött nép leánya - beleszületett. Valójában öntudatos volt, és szíve mélyén az a meggyőződés élt, hogy érdem szerint magasabb rang illeti meg, mint amelyet a vallási ítélet neki megszabott.