How so, too late. NATHAN. Thanks to the patriarch. TEMPLAR. How Thanks to the patriarch, and for what? Can he Earn thanks of us. For what? NATHAN. That now we know To whom she is related—to whose hands She may with confidence be now delivered. TEMPLAR. He thank him who has more to thank him for. NATHAN. From theirs you now have to obtain her, not From mine. TEMPLAR. Poor Recha—what befalls thee? Oh, Poor Recha—what had been to other orphans A blessing, is to thee a curse. But, Nathan, Where are they, these new kinsmen? NATHAN. Where they are? TEMPLAR. Who are they? NATHAN. Who—a brother is found out To whom you must address yourself. TEMPLAR. A brother! And what is he, a soldier or a priest? Let’s hear what I’ve to hope. NATHAN. As I believe He’s neither of the two—or both. Just now I cannot say exactly. TEMPLAR. And besides He’s— NATHAN. A brave fellow, and with whom my Recha Will not be badly placed. TEMPLAR. But he’s a Christian. At times I know not what to make of you— Take it not ill of me, good Nathan. Will she Not have to play the Christian among Christians; And when she has been long enough the actress Not turn so? Will the tares in time not stifle The pure wheat of your setting—and does that Affect you not a whit—you yet declare She’ll not be badly placed. NATHAN. I think, I hope so. And should she there have need of any thing Has she not you and me? TEMPLAR. Need at her brother’s— What should she need when there? Won’t he provide His dear new sister with all sorts of dresses, With comfits and with toys and glittering jewels? And what needs any sister wish for else— Only a husband? And he comes in time. A brother will know how to furnish that, The Christianer the better. Nathan, Nathan, O what an angel you had formed, and how Others will mar it now! NATHAN. Be not so downcast, Believe me he will ever keep himself Worthy our love. TEMPLAR. No, say not that of mine. My love allows of no refusal—none. Were it the merest trifle—but a name. Hold there—has she as yet the least suspicion Of what is going forward? NATHAN.