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Ascher have promised to have supper there with me. If you are not engaged ?" I glanced at the lady in the stalls. I was not going to ask her to supper. "I shall be delighted," said Von Richter. "I have no engagement of any importance." The lady in the stalls was evidently the sort of lady who could be dismissed without trouble.
We have no engagements this week." I got the note on Monday and fixed Wednesday for our dinner. I could not think that Ascher really wanted to talk to me. I did not see what he had to talk to me about; but I wanted to talk to him. I wanted to tell him about my tour and to give him some idea of the effect which my glimpse at his business had produced on my mind.
But even under such circumstances the sense of the ridiculous survives a thing to be carefully concealed in those who are fortunate enough to possess it Ascher has no sense of the ridiculous. He sees men and women clad in long, stately robes moving through life with grave dignity like Arab chiefs or caliphs of Bagdad.
We talk of ships and engines by the names we give them and use personal pronouns, generally feminine, when we speak of them. But did any one ever call a cash register "Minnie" or talk of it familiarly as "she"? "He thinks," said Mrs. Ascher, "indeed he is sure he says his brother told him " "I know," I said. "The machine isn't going to be put on the market at all.
As a devout worshipper of art she ought to have realised that her goddess can only be fitly honoured by people wealthy enough to buy leisure, that the toiling millions want bread much more than they want beauty. I have no quarrel with the description of the life of Birmingham as more "real" both Gorman and Mrs. Ascher kept using the word than the life of the Isle of Wight.
I have, since then, seen nurses unwrapping the bandages from the wounded limbs of men. The way they did it always reminded me of Mrs. Ascher. The removal of the last bandage revealed to me a figure about eighteen inches high of a girl who seemed to me to be stretching herself after getting out of bed before stepping into her bath. "Psyche," said Mrs. Ascher.
As the hours wore on they dropped like flies, to receive no attention whatever, except from their less-wounded comrades, who strove might and main to render the plight of the worst afflicted as tolerable as the circumstances would permit. Dr. Ascher toiled in the hospital like a Trojan, but the military doctor was not disposed to exert himself unduly.
I suppose I took it for granted that you were English." "I am a German," said Ascher. "I was born in Hamburg, of German parents. All my relations are Germans. I came over to England as a young man and went into business here. My business I do not know why is one to which Englishmen do not take readily. There are English bankers of course, but not very many English financiers.
But then it was objected, upon reflection, that Blaustein and Ascher had both been permitted to make their escape, and this hardly justified the theory of an implacable anti-Semitic vendetta.
He laid a box of cigarettes beside me and set a vase of spills at my right hand. I gathered that I might smoke, so long as I lit my tobacco noiselessly, with spills kindled in the fire; but that I must not make scratchy sounds by striking matches. Mrs. Ascher sank down in a corner of a large sofa.
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