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"I don't think, sir," he said, "that less than two-thirds of the bill will make Mr. Samuels easy. You see, this opal was in a necklace. It wasn't like a ring you might have taken off your finger. It's a lady's ornament; and soon after you obtain it from us; you make use of it by turning it into cash. It's a case for a criminal prosecution, which, for the sake of your relations, Mr.
He'd be glad to refund the five hundred what is it? and twenty-five why not, 'and sixpence three farthings? I tell you, I shall let my father pay. Mr. Samuels had better serve me with a common writ. I tell you, I'm not going to denude myself of money altogether. I haven't examined the bill. Leave it here. You can tear off the receipt. Leave it here."
"'Tuz naught to be smuckerun' ot," her mother reproved her. "The Samuels?" I intervened. "I don't understand." "Her four sons thot died." "And were they all named Samuel?" "Aye." "Strange," I commented in the lagging silence. "Very strange," Mrs.
"Why, sir, you see," the man, as one who throws off a mask, smiled cordially, after buttoning up the notes; "credit 'd soon give up the ghost, if it hadn't its own dodges, as I may say. This is only a feeler on Mr. Samuels' part. He heard of his things going to pledge. Halloa! he sings out. And tradesmen are human, sir. Between us, I side with gentlemen, in most cases.
"Yes, indeed," said Mr. Montagu Samuels. "The rascal has only written this to make money. He knows it's all exaggeration and distortion; but anything spicy pays now-a-days." "As a West Indian merchant he ought to know," murmured Sidney Graham to his charming cousin, Adelaide Leon. The girl's soft eyes twinkled, as she surveyed the serious little city magnate with his placid spouse.
Graham should ever join us on the Council of the United Synagogue," added Montagu Samuels, addressing the table generally, "he will discover that there is no communal problem with which we do not loyally grapple." "No, thank you," said Sidney, with a shudder. "When I visit Raphael, I sometimes pick up a Jewish paper and amuse myself by reading the debates of your public bodies.
'Not while Simeon Samuels is selling them cheaper, as with his Sabbath profits he can well afford to do! 'Oh, he said he'd stick to his Sabbath profit, did he? inquired the Parnass. 'We never touched on that, said Peleg miserably. 'I couldn't manage to work the Sabbath into the conversation. 'This is terrible. Barzinsky's fist smote the table. 'I'll go let him suspect my motives or not.
Flint grinned amiably. "Fired? Well, well," said Cleve, "that's certainly tough luck all this way from home. I'll have to pay you in Federal Reserve bills. The old man has the gold." "Federal Reserve it is. Forty-six dollars in Uncle Samuels." The first officer solemnly counted out the sum and laid it on the palm of the discharged man. "Tough world." "Oh, I'm not worrying!
His stature grew, his eloquence poured forth, polysyllabic. The minister descended the Ark-steps, and stalked back solemnly to his seat. As he passed Simeon Samuels, that gentleman whipped out his hand and grasped the man of God's, and his neighbours testified that there was a look of contrite exaltation upon his goodly features.
'I didn't undertake to preach every Saturday, grumbled the minister, growing bolder. 'As long as Simeon Samuels keeps open, you can't shut, said Solomon angrily. 'It's a duel between you, added Peleg. "And took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes." There's your very text. You'll pick out Simeon from among us, and bind him to keep the Sabbath.
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