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Pinchas your repartee about the donkey," said Hannah, smiling. "Oh, no, it's not worth while," said the Reb. "Thou art always so backward with thine own," cried the Rebbitzin warmly. "Last Purim an impudent of face sent my husband a donkey made of sugar. My husband had a Rabbi baked in gingerbread and sent it in exchange to the donor, with the inscription 'A Rabbi sends a Rabbi."
I don't want any of your Jewish men coming round to examine me as if! were a horse, and wanting to know how much money you'll give them as a set-off. Let me be! Let me be single! It's my business, not yours." The Rebbitzin bent eyes of angry reproach on the Reb. "What did I tell thee, Shemuel? She's meshugga quite mad! Healthy and fresh and mad!" "Yes, you'll drive me mad," said Hannah savagely.
But he was chivalrous as of yore: the vein of quiet humor was still there, though his voice was charged with gentle melancholy. The Rebbitzin's nose had grown sharper than ever; her soul seemed to have fed on vinegar. Even in the presence of a stranger the Rebbitzin could not quite conceal her dominant thought. It hardly needed a woman to divine how it fretted Mrs.
"I know it because my Simon, God bless him, was breeched the same month." Simon was Malka's eldest, now a magistrate in Melbourne. "His third wife was Kitty Green, daughter of the yellow Melammed," persisted the Rebbitzin. "I know it for a fact, because Kitty's sister Annie was engaged for a week to my brother-in-law Nathaniel."
But I have written articles for the jargon papers. They jump at me there is not a man on the staff of them all who has the pen of a ready writer. I can't get any money out of them, my dear Rebbitzin, else I shouldn't be without breakfast this morning, but the proprietor of the largest of them is also a printer, and he has printed my little book in return.
I will give him your messages," said Esther. "No, no," interrupted Hannah. "What are you to him? Why should you risk infection for our sakes?" "Go, Hannah, but secretly," said the Rebbitzin in a wailing whisper. "Let not thy father see thee till thou arrive; then he will not send thee back. Tell Levi that I oh, my poor child, my poor lamb!" Sobs overpowered her speech.
External evidence pointed rather to the defrication of the nose. "But, mother," said Hannah. "You know we have a servant to do the rough work." "Yes, servants!" said the Rebbitzin, contemptuously. "If you don't stand over them as the Egyptian taskmasters over our forefathers, they don't do a stroke of work except breaking the crockery.
Secondly, dost thou not know that with us the Day of Atonement is called a festival, because we rejoice at the Creator's goodness in giving us the privilege of fasting? That's it, Pinchas, isn't it?" "Yes, that's the point of the story, and I think the Rebbitzin had the best of it, eh?" "Rebbitzins always have the last word," said the Reb.
"What have you got your new coat on for? Any weddings to-day?" "No, my dear," said Reb Shemuel, "marriages are falling off. There hasn't even been an engagement since Belcovitch's eldest daughter betrothed herself to Pesach Weingott." "Oh, these Jewish young men!" said the Rebbitzin. "Look at my Hannah as pretty a girl as you could meet in the whole Lane and yet here she is wasting her youth."
'And why in the Cadets? Give me the Democrats. 'For shame, Rebbitzin! Put not your trust in Princes. The bystanders hushed down the text-quoter a fuzzy-headed butcher-boy. 'Miserable Monarchists! he sneered. 'We Jews will have no peace till the Republicans 'A Republic without Socialism! interrupted a girl with a laundry basket. 'What good's that? Wait till the N.S.'s
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