As the ears of Isaac received the hopes of escape which this speech intimated, he began gradually, and inch by inch, as it were, to raise himself up from the ground, until he fairly rested upon his knees, throwing back his long grey hair and beard, and fixing his keen black eyes upon the Palmer's face, with a look expressive at once of hope and fear, not unmingled with suspicion.
Amint a menekülés reménye a zarándok szavaiból Izsák tudatába hatolt, az öreg zsidó fokozatosan, szinte hüvelykről hüvelykre felemelkedett a földről. Végül már egyenesen térdelt, hosszú haját hátravetette, és fekete szeme a zarándok arcára tapadt.