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"If everybody were to talk like you Leah Volcovitch would never be married at all." Leibel shrugged his shoulders, and reminded him that hunchbacked girls who stammered and squinted and halted on left legs were not usually led under the canopy. "Nonsense! Stuff!" cried Sugarman, angrily. "That is because they do not come to me."
The terribly fine maid gave a kind of snort and resumed her inspection of the ceiling. Gradually Shosshi found himself examining her again. Verily Sugarman had spoken truly of her charms. But overwhelming thought had not Sugarman also said she loved him? Shosshi knew nothing of the ways of girls, except what he had learned from the Talmud.
Would you become a jewellery shop? the baffled Shadchan shrieked through the woodwork. He returned to Elias, brooding darkly. 'Well? queried Elias. 'O, your love matches! And Sugarman shook them away with shuddersome palms. 'Then she won't 'No, she won't. Ah, how blessed you are to escape from that daughter of Satan! The greengrocer's daughter now 'Speak me no more matches.
Becky tossed her head. "I've got a new dolman," she said, turning to one of her young men who was present by special grace. "You should see me in it. I look noble." "Yes," said Mrs. Belcovitch proudly. "It shines in the sun." "Is it like the one Bessie Sugarman's got?" inquired the young man. "Bessie Sugarman!" echoed Becky scornfully. "She gets all her things from the tallyman.
"I must got to laugh, Mawruss," Abe protested, "when I seen it Sam Feder, of the Kosciusko Bank, this morning, and he tells it me you got a permanent mortgage from the I. O. M. A. He says Milton M. Sugarman told him you got it ahead of Rashkin, because you got influence as a lodge brother of Sugarman." "Sure, I did," Morris admitted.
"He had his work to think of. He is a good, saving youth." "At this very moment Sugarman is trying to persuade him not so? I suppose he will want much money." "Be easy, my child." And he passed his discoloured hand over her hair.
And the Shalotten Shammos laughed joyously, "Apples," and dived under the table, and his long form reached to the other side and beyond, and graybearded men echoed the joyous cry and scrambled on the ground like schoolboys. "Leolom tikkach always take," quoted the Badchan gleefully. When Sugarman returned, radiant, he found his absence had been fatal. "Piece of fool!
Sugarman blenched and skipped back and the line of fists wavered. "Don't be fools, gentlemen," said De Haan, his keen sense of humor asserting itself. "Let Mr. Leon sit down." Raphael, still dazed, took his seat on the editorial chair. "Now, what can I do for you?" he said courteously. The fists dropped at his calm. "Do for us," said Schlesinger drily. "You've done for the paper.
Two-eyed lump of flesh," said Mrs. Sugarman in a loud whisper. "Flying out of the room as if thou hadst the ague." "Shall I sit still like thee while our home is eaten up around us?" Sugarman whispered back. "Couldst thou not look to the apples? Plaster image! Leaden fool! See, they have emptied the basket, too." "Well, dost thou expect luck and blessing to crawl into it?
Why, we get the Co-operative Kosher Society to start with." "Yes, but we ain't: going to pay for that," said Sugarman the Shadchan. "That doesn't matter," said De Haan. "It'll look well we can fill up a whole page with it.
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