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The Bube explained the situation in voluble Yiddish, and made Esther wince again under the impassioned invective on her clumsiness. The old beldame expended enough oriental metaphor on the accident to fit up a minor poet. If the family died of starvation, their blood would be upon their granddaughter's head. "Well, why don't you wipe it up, stupid?" said Becky.
Beneath all his artistic perception of the humours of the thing, Schneemann found himself prosaically sharing the general disapprobation of the marriage. Really, when one came to think of it, it was ridiculous that he should have a new grandfather thrust upon him. And such a grandfather! Perhaps the Bube was, indeed, losing her reason.
It appeared to be established beyond question that on the preceding Feast of Tabernacles the Bube had lent and practically abandoned to the hunchback's use the ritual palm-branch he was too poor to afford.
And so, while Haigitcha walks in darkness, Yvonne prays in her chapel and Elkan preaches in his church. When Schneemann, the artist, returned from Rome to his native village in Galicia, he found it humming with gossip concerning his paternal grandmother, universally known as the Bube Yenta.
"Go thou to the Widow Finkelstein." "But Esther can go," said Moses. "Yes, I'm going," said Esther. "Méshe!" repeated the Bube inexorably. "Go thou to the Widow Finkelstein." Moses went. "Have you said the afternoon prayer, boys?" the old woman asked. "Yes," said Solomon. "While you were asleep." "Oh-h-h!" said Esther under her breath. And she looked reproachfully at Solomon.
"For Owgooste," she confided to him. Owgooste was in a Fauntleroy "costume" very much too small for him. Already he had been crying. "Woult you pelief, Doktor, dot bube has torn his stockun alreatty? Walk in der front, you; stop cryun. Where is dot berliceman?" At the door of the theatre McTeague was suddenly seized with a panic terror. He had lost the tickets.
For three things a woman dies in childbirth, for not separating the dough, for not lighting the Sabbath lamps and for not " "How often have I told thee she did do all these things!" interrupted Moses. "Dost thou contradict the Prayer-book?" said the Bube angrily. "It would have been different if thou hadst let me pick a woman for thee. But this time thou wilt honor thy mother more.
It was not many days before the artist met persons who had actually overheard the bargaining between the Bube and the hunchback. Meantime Yossel's departure was drawing nigh, and all those who had relatives in Palestine besieged him from miles around, plying him with messages, benedictions, and even packages for their kinsfolk.
But death ended these bickerings and the Bube, who had frequently reproached her son for bringing her into such an atheistic country, was left a drag the more upon the family deprived at once of a mother and a bread-winner. Old Mrs. Ansell was unfit: for anything save grumbling, and so the headship naturally devolved upon Esther, whom her mother's death left a woman getting on for eight.
Yossel looked the picture of misery. The Bube unconsciously cut through the situation. 'A wicked man gave it to him, she explained, 'to pray away his sins in Jerusalem. 'Indeed! murmured the artist. 'Anyone you know? 'Heaven has spared her the pain of knowing him, ambiguously interpolated her anxious protector. 'I don't even know his name, added the Bube. 'Yossel keeps it hidden.
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