France and England excelled--not
remembering that, in a young, forward, and ill-educated woman, the
dangerous desire of display succeeds the acquirement of accomplishments
as surely and as regularly as day follows night.

Thus, shut up in one of the most gloomy hotels in Paris--conveyed in a
close carriage once or twice a week to the Bois de Boulogne, or the
gardens of Versailles--fearing to express delight, lest she should be
reproved for levity--or desire for any thing, lest it should be the very
thing she would not be permitted to possess--the proud, warm,
frank-hearted Jewess became gradually metamorphosed into the cunning,
passionate, deceptive intriguante, only waiting for an opportunity
to deceive her guardians, and obtain that which, from being so
strictly forbidden, she concluded must be the greatest possible
enjoyment--freedom of word and action. Alas! if we may use a homely
phrase, many are the victims to strait-lacing, both of stays and
conscience!

But if the old, grey-bearded Ichabod had been an object of dislike to
the youthful and self-willed Jewess before she saw Sir Willmott Burrell,
how did she regard him afterwards!

Manasseh Ben Israel had, as we have intimated, intrusted some packages
for his daughter to the charge of the treacherous knight; and how he
abused the trust has been already shown. But the poor Jewess found to
her cost, that though she loved him with all the warmth and ardour of
her own nature, he regarded her only as an object of pastime and
pleasure; the idea of in reality marrying a Jewess never once entered
into his calculation, though he was obliged to submit to something like
the ceremony, before he could overcome scruples that are implanted with
much care in the heart of every Jewish maiden. Although she deceived her
guardians and her antiquated lover with great dexterity, it never
occurred to her that Sir Willmott could be so base as to deceive her.
She was new to the world and its ways; and the full torrent of her
anger, jealousy, and disappointment burst upon him, when she found that
the charms of a fair-haired lady had superseded her own, and that
Burrell was already treating her with coldness. Of all the passions
inherent in the heart of a woman, that of jealousy is the most dangerous
to herself and others: it is fierce and restless in its nature; when
infuriated, nothing can oppose its progress; and although most powerful
in the most feeble-minded, it frequently assumes t