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Poor Jews! In the midst of sorrow, as in the midst of joy, the behests of their holy religion are never forgotten. "Yes, we may travel," replied Mordecai. "It is a matter of more importance than life and death, and the Talmud authorizes the desecration of the Sabbath in time of great danger." "Then let us go at once," whispered Leah.
Sam Green's face flushed in recollection of the phrase. "Never mind," he said fervently; "he's got anyhow a heart." "And I've got a stomach," Max Kirschner added irrelevantly. "At least, I've recovered one since I've been eating Leah Green's good cooking." Sam and Moe Griesman smiled sympathetically. "Well, what's the use wasting time here, boys?" Moe said at last.
"Well, sir, can you tell me anything of the Mordecai family-Mr. Benjamin Mordecai?" said Leah, with a slightly tremulous voice. The old man's eye brightened up, and he slapped his fat hand upon his knee with renewed force and rapidity, and replied, with an inquisitive squint in his face, "Are you a Jew?" "I am a Jewess, sir," she said softly. "I feel an interest in my people.
In the three years that I have known you, and we have seen each other daily, I have never known you guilty of a single act or word that was unworthy " "Oh! Leah " "Do not interrupt me, Lizzie. You must hear my story now, though it shall be briefly told; and I have one request to make, my dear. It is, that you have charity for my faults, and pity for me in my many temptations."
I gave them a magnificent dinner and supper, and in the evening they were shewn a double-bedded room not far from mine. I might have put them in different rooms, and Leah in a room adjoining mine, which would have facilitated any nocturnal excursions; but after all I had done for her I was resolved to owe nothing to a surprise; she should come of herself.
Nanny has had three children, two of them are dead; she came to implore that the rule of sending them into the field three weeks after their confinement might be altered. Leah, Caesar's wife, has had six children, three are dead. Sophy, Lewis' wife, came to beg for some old linen; she is suffering fearfully, has had ten children, five of them are dead.
Luckily I had got valuable effects, so this second consideration did not trouble me much. As I did not see Leah at supper-time I imagined that she was feigning illness to avoid meeting me, and I felt very much obliged to her on this account. As it appeared, however, I was entirely mistaken in my conjectures.
Leah soon found herself in the very dilemma she had deprecated, and the apprehension of which had kept her so long practically honest without a situation, and with a damaged character. As Mary understood book-keeping, the duties of her new office were soon learned, and the only evil attending it was, that she could not take care of her father.
Thomas is superstitious beyond all reasonableness; and good Mistress Ann, my pious sister-in-law, is almost as bad as he is, notwithstanding her lies and trickery. Do you know what I saw that Leah Herrick doing?" "What was it?"
"She went in one of our wagons: Sister Leah and Brother Ephraim went along." "When will they return?" "I cannot say." All this time the man was leaning back against the wall, but uttered not a word. A glance of triumph shot from the sister's eyes as I rose. But she was mistaken if she thought I was going away.
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