Her heart beat painfully as she put the question

  "You don't mean that, father," she said, shaking her head.   "True as the Torah! Why should I not?"   "Suppose," she said slowly, "I wanted to marry a Christian?"   Her heart beat painfully as she put the question.   Reb Shemuel laughed heartily.   "My Hannah would have made a good Talmudist. Of course, I don't mean it in that sense."   "Yes, but if I was to marry a very _link_ Jew, you'd think it almost as bad."   "No, no!" said the Reb, shaking his head. "That's a different thing altogether; a Jew is a Jew, and a Christian a Christian."   "But you can't always distinguish between them," argued Hannah. "There are Jews who behave as if they were Christians, except, of course, they don't believe in the Crucified One."   Still the old Reb shook his head.   "The worst of Jews cannot put off his Judaism. His unborn soul undertook the yoke of the Torah at Sinai."   "Then you really wouldn't mind if I married a _link_ Jew!"   He looked at her, startled, a suspicion dawning in his eyes.