Mr. Israel Melchizedek was the miracle of good breeding, the refined and intellectual Jew. Looking at him one was irrestistibly reminded of the fact that his ancestors had ancestors who had conversed with Jehovah. He was nearing seventy years of age, a tall, lean old fellow with a firm delicate face of what might well have been polished ivory.
(from The Gyrth Chalice Mystery, by Margery Allingham)
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