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Updated: June 21, 2025
"Why, baby, a girl couldn't have a finer trousseau than the old linens back yet from Russia that me and gramaw got saved up for our girl linen that can't be bought these days. Bed-sheets that gramaw herself carried to the border, and " "Oh, I know! I knew you'd try to dump that stuff on me. That old, worm-eaten stuff in gramaw's chest." "It's hand-woven, Selene, with "
Coblenz shifted her weight from one slipper to the other, her maroon-net skirts lying in a swirl around them. "Just look at gramaw, too! She holds up her head with the best of them. I wouldn't have had her miss this, not for the world." "Sure one fine old lady! Ought to have seen her shake my hand, mother Coblenz. I nearly had to holler, 'Ouch!" "Mamma, here comes Sara Suss and her mother.
He was constantly wiping away the tears from his light eyes and looking away to gulp. She reassured him where she could, tightening her hold of his hand. "Don't let them hurt her." "They aren't hurting her, Harry dear. She can't feel at all under the anaesthetic." "But they won't know. Gramaw won't let them know. Tell them, Lilly, she's that way not to hurt her please." "Harry dear!"
You can't get in there, I tell you no way you try to fix it after the way gramaw had to leave. Even before the war Ray Letsky's father couldn't get back on business. There's nothing for her there, even after she gets there. In thirty years, do you think you can find those graves? Do you know the size of Siberia? No! But I got to pay I got to pay for gramaw's nonsense. But I won't.
"I'm going to be the beautifulest singer in the world some day, with a voice that goes as high as anything, and be on the stage, and you can't even be on it with me." "'N' I'm going to work in a butcher shop and give gramaw all the meat she wants without even putting it down in the book." "You steal." "Don't." "Do." "And I won't ever have to touch the meat if it's got blood on."
A long cooking fork in her hand, and a puff of steam hissing out after her, Mrs. Schum peered into the hallway. She was strangely smaller, Lilly thought, as if the flesh were beginning to wither off the rack of her bones. "Mrs. Schum! Dear Mrs. Schum!" "Who's that?" "Come out, gramaw. It's no one to be afraid of." "Harry!" Her voice came cracking out like a shot. "Harry, are you in trouble?"
"I know it, mama, but so have other people suffered." "She's old, Selene old." "I tell you it's the way you indulge her, mama. I've seen her sitting here as perk as you please, and the minute you come in the room down goes her head like like she was dying." "It's her mind, Selene that's going. That's why I feel if I could only get her back. She ain't old, gramaw ain't.
"With the book in her drawer, like always, and the entries changed once in a while, she'll never know the difference. I swear to God she'll never know the difference, mama!" "Poor gramaw!" "Mama, promise me your little Selene. Promise me?" "Selene, Selene, can we keep it from her?" "I swear we can, mama." "Poor, poor gramaw!" "Mama? Mama darling?" "O God, show me the way!"
In the smallest possible compass, Miss Coblenz crouched now upon the floor, head down somewhere in her knees, and her curving back racked with rising sobs. "Selene but some day " "Some day nothing! A woman like gramaw can't do much more than go down-town once a year, and then you talk about taking her to Russia!
Wasn't it sweet for him to put it that way right off, ma? 'Mother Coblenz, he says." "He's a good boy, Selene. It'll be a proud day for me and gramaw. Gramaw mustn't miss none of it. He's a good boy and a fine family." "That's why, mama, we got to to do it up right." "Lester knows, child, he's not marrying a rich girl." "A girl don't have to be rich to get married right."
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