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Ai vai!" "Five hundred dollars!" Abe exclaimed. "If you think you should cry till you get five hundred dollars out of me, you got a long wet spell ahead of you. That's all I got to say." "Might he would take two hundred and fifty dollars, maybe," Mrs. Sheikman suggested hopefully through her tears.
He repaired to the rear of the store, while Abe piloted his two visitors into the show-room. "Now what is it you want from me?" he asked. "Not a penny she got it," Mrs. Mashkowitz declared, breaking into tears. "And she got a fine young feller what is willing to marry her and wants it only five hundred dollars." "Only five hundred dollars," Mrs. Sheikman moaned. "Only five hundred dollars.
"Me, I am Mrs. Sarah Mashkowitz, and this here lady is my sister, Mrs. Blooma Sheikman, geborn Smolinski." "That ain't my fault that you got them names," Abe said. "I see it now that you're my wife's father's brother's daughter, ain't it? So if you're going to make a touch, make it. I got business to attend to." "We ain't going to make no touch, Potash," Mrs. Mashkowitz declared.
Sheikman favored him with a look of contempt. "What chance has a poor girl got it to get married?" she asked. "When she ain't got a dollar in the world," Mrs. Mashkowitz added. "And her own relatives from her own blood is millionaires already." "If you mean me," Abe replied, "I ain't no millionaire, I can assure you. Far from it." "Plenty of money you got it, Potash," Mrs. Mashkowitz said.
Sheikman burst forth again; "maybe he would be satisfied." "S'enough!" Abe roared. "I heard enough already." He banged a sample table with his fist and Mrs. Sheikman jumped in her seat. "That's a heart what you got it," she said bitterly, "like Haman." "Haman was a pretty good feller already compared to me," Abe declared; "and also I got business to attend to." "Come, Sarah," Mrs. Sheikman cried.
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