Plot
Nina Balatka, the
beautiful daughter of a bankrupt merchant of Prague, was in love with the son
of her father's former Jewish partner, Stephen Trendellsohn,
who had befriended them during her father's long illness and owned the house in
which they lived. Nina's wealthy relatives were determined to prevent her
marriage to Anton and plotted to give him cause to doubt her devotion. The
deeds to the Balatka house were in the possession of Karil Zamenoy, Nina's uncle, and
when Anton asked for them he was told that Nina held them. Nina denied this and
to prove it asked Anton to search her desk. When he found them there, she was
overwhelmed by his belief that she had attempted to cheat him, and tried to
throw herself from the Karls-brucke, but was rescued. Terrified by this near
tragedy, a house servant confessed that he had been bribed to hide the deeds in
the desk. Nina and Anton were reconciled and after their marriage moved to the
more friendly atmosphere of
GEROULD,
WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
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