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"Do you think," I said, "that Ascher ever regretted his decision?" "What decision? Oh, to stay in England? No. I don't think he ever has. He's done pretty well for himself in spite of any little trouble there's been. I should say he's no worse off than he was." "I wasn't thinking of the matter from a business point of view," I said. "From every other point of view," said Gorman, "he was wrong.
"I shall be there," I said, "on the first night. You can count on my applause." It occurred to me after Gorman left me that the revival of his play offered me an excellent opportunity of entertaining the Aschers. Ascher had been exceedingly kind to me in giving me letters of introduction to all the leading bankers in South America. Mrs. Ascher had been steadily friendly to me.
There is no solidity about it The farmers of the south and west of Ireland, on the other hand, have real wealth, actual savings, stored up in the Post Office Banks, or placed on deposit, in other banks, or hoarded in stockings. Ascher was most unwilling to join in the discussion. He noticed, as I did, that Miss Gibson's attention was wandering.
There is, at all events, less excuse for her. She is not knightly, not very knightly, though she did champion the cause of poor, oppressed Ireland. She is an American, not a German, and the Americans pay high honour to their humourists. Perhaps she has lived too long with Ascher.
"Ephraim," said Gudule, "speak to your sister. In her sinful anger, Viola would revenge herself upon her own father. Does it so beseem a Jewish child?" "Why does he treat you so cruelly, then?" Viola almost hissed the words. Soon after fell the final crushing blow. Ascher had been away from home for some weeks, when one day Gudule received a letter, dated a prison in the neighborhood of Vienna.
"I shall go on as long as your introductions last, gathering knowledge which will not be the slightest use to me or any one else." "I had better provide you with a circular letter of credit," said Ascher. "It is never wise to carry considerable sums about in your pocket." We had got to money, to business in the strictest sense of the word.
However, we managed all right." "How?" "Oh," said Gorman, "in the usual way. Diverted it." "Gorman," I said, "I'm afraid I'm getting stupid. Fighting must have muddled my brain. I don't quite follow you. What did you divert?" "Popular opinion," said Gorman. "We turned it away from Ascher, started everybody hunting a fresh hare.
I was not conscious that my eyes had wandered to Mrs. Ascher's dress until Gorman winked at me. Fortunately Ascher noticed neither my glance nor Gorman's wink. I had not thought of suggesting that Mrs. Briggs' stage costume was no more daring than what Mrs. Ascher wore. "Of course," said Ascher, "she wouldn't come to supper in tights. It's her other clothes she's thinking of.
"Dear father," he said, with tears in his eyes, "make yourself quite comfortable; you haven't closed your eyes the whole night, you must be worn out. You are at home, remember...father!" "It's all right," said Ascher, with a deprecating gesture, "WE fellows know other ways of spending the night." "WE FELLOWS!" The words cut Ephraim to the heart.
She was not posing even when she crumpled herself upon the floor and looked like a sick serpent. She was in simple earnest when she mouthed her lines about money, money. There might be, probably were, several other people in the world like Mrs. Ascher, might even be many others. That was the new fact which I wanted to digest.
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