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His manner towards Solomon was of a corresponding condescension. But it took a great deal to overawe Solomon, who, with the national humor, possessed the national Chutzpah, which is variously translated enterprise, audacity, brazen impudence and cheek. "I say, Levi," he said, "we've got no school to-day. Won't you come round this morning and play I-spy-I in our street?
And yet Levi Jacobs was a good-looking boy with brown hair and eyes, a dark glowing complexion and ruddy lips a sort of reduced masculine edition of Hannah. "I've come to play I-spy-I, Solomon," he said when he entered "My, don't you live high up!" "I thought you had to go to school," Solomon observed with a stare. "Ours isn't a board school," Levi explained.
But he found it difficult to back out of his undertaking to play I-spy-I with Solomon; and in the end he had to leave Esther to her book. She had little in common with her brother Solomon, least of all humor and animal spirits.
A little, dark girl, with a print dress, rather pretty not a bit like you." "Yes, that's our Esther she's in the sixth standard and only eleven." "We don't have standards in our school!" said Levi contemptuously. "Will your sister join in the I-spy-I?" "No, she can't run," replied Solomon, half apologetically. "She only likes to read.
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