United States or Sint Maarten ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Hayye Dvoshe, the wig-maker, for the eleventh time repeating herself, to my mother, still patiently attentive, thus: "Promise me, I beg you. I don't sleep nights for thinking of him.
As my mother had been trained to her business from childhood, while my father had had only a little irregular experience, she naturally remained the leader. She was as successful as her father before her. The people continued to call her Raphael's Hannah Hayye, and under that name she was greatly respected in the business world.
Oi, weh! what haven't I imagined, what haven't I dreamed, what haven't I lamented! Already three letters have I sent the last one, you know, you yourself wrote for me, Hannah Hayye, dear and no answer. Lost, as if in the sea!" And after the application of a corner of her shawl to eyes and nose, Hayye Dvoshe, continuing:
Before sunset the news was all over Polotzk that Hannah Hayye had received a steamer ticket for America. Then they began to come.
There were no serious objections from the cousins, and my father became engaged to my mother. This second choice was Hannah Hayye, only daughter of Raphael, called the Russian. She had had a very different bringing-up from Pinchus, the grandson of Israel Kimanyer. She had never known a day of want; had never gone barefoot from necessity.
Hannah Hayye, the only daughter of Raphael the Russian, going on sixteen, buxom, bright, capable, and well educated, could not escape the eye of the shadchan. A fine thing it would be to let such a likely girl grow old over a book! To the canopy with her, while she could fetch the highest price in the marriage market! My mother was very unwilling to think of marriage at this time.
Word Of The Day