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Belcovitch, whirling a medicine-bottle, went down the middle on a pair of huge stilts, one a thick one and one a thin one, while Malka spun round like a teetotum, throwing Ezekiel in long clothes through a hoop; what time Moses Ansell waltzed superbly with the dazzling Addie Leon, quite cutting out Levi and Miriam Hyams, and Raphael awkwardly twisted the Widow Finkelstein, to the evident delight of Sugarman the Shadchan, who had effected the introduction.
Belcovitch, attired in a skirt and a night-cap, stopped aghast in the act of combing out her wig, which hung over an edge of the back of a chair, that served as a barber's block. Like the apple-woman, she fancied the apparition a lady philanthropist and though she had long ceased to take charity, the old instincts leaped out under the sudden shock.
"It was well she buried it," said Karlkammer. "It was an atonement for a child, and saved its life." The Shalotten Shammos laughed outright. "Ah, laugh not," said Mrs. Belcovitch. "Or you might laugh with blood. It isn't for my own sins that I was born with ill-matched legs."
It was the story of Cymon and Iphigenia over again. Love improved even his powers of conversation, for when Belcovitch held forth at length Shosshi came in several times with "So?" and sometimes in the right place. Mr. Belcovitch loved his own voice and listened to it, the arrested press-iron in his hand.
Shosshi was indeed very much in love and felt that all that was needed for his happiness was a sight of his future wife. But he had no time to go and see her except on Sunday afternoons, and then she was always out. Mrs. Belcovitch, however, made amends by paying him considerable attention.
"A woman!" answered Esther in German. She was glad she learned German; it would be the best substitute for Yiddish in her new-old life. "Herein!" said Mrs. Belcovitch, with sentry-like brevity. Esther turned the handle, and her surprise was not diminished when she found herself not in the work-room, but in the invalid's bedroom.
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