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Mice squeaked under the floor, and on the further side of the Oka an owl screeched, while amid the pitch-black heavens I could see a number of blotches intermittently lightening to an elusive red and blurring the faint glitter of the stars. "It was one o'clock in the morning when my father died," Gubin continued.
At the same time, it was a face wherein not a single feature was of a kind to remain fixed in the memory, a face as vacant as though nature had forgotten to stamp thereon a single wish. Hence, even when the woman smiled there seemed to remain a doubt whether the smile had really materialised. "How is Natalia Vasilievna?" continued Gubin. "Much as usual," the woman answered softly.
The business will be conducted under the old firm style." Morris handed back the paper with a smile. "I seen Leon Sammet on the subway this morning and he told me all about it," he commented. "He says Gubin eloped with her." Abe shook his head. "You got it wrong, Mawruss. You must be mistaken," he concluded. "She eloped with Gubin." "You carry a fine stock, Mr.
And though in the elderly lady's voice there was weariness and distaste, the words were spoken slowly and incisively. Upon this Gubin tried to murmur something or another, but again his utterance failed to edge its way into his interlocutor's measured periods: "No great achievement is it," she said, "to condemn a fellow creature. For always it is easy to sit in judgment upon our fellows.
Shabby, in fact in rags, Gubin at that moment reminded me of a homeless dog which, having strayed into a strange street, has found itself held up by a band of dogs of superior strength, and, seized with nervousness, is sitting back on its haunches and sweeping the dust with its tail; and, with growls, and occasional barings of its fangs, and sundry barkings, attempting now to intimidate its adversaries, and now to conciliate them.
Fool! Donkey! The man got away with a hundred thousand dollars and is living like a prince in the old country. And poor Gussie, she loved him, too! She cries night and day." He stopped to wipe a sympathetic tear. "She cries pretty easy," Abe said. "She cried when we fired Mannie Gubin, too." Hahn bristled again. "You insult me. What?" he cried. "You try to get funny with me. Hey? All right.
"But we wouldn't got to go into the building business, Abe," Morris protested. "All we got to do is to put down eight thousand dollars for the lot. Then the I. O. M. A. makes us a building loan of twenty-five thousand dollars. Rashkin's got plans and specifications drawn by Pinsky & Gubin, a first-class, A Number One archy-teck concern, for which he wouldn't charge us nothing, and then, Abe "
"It ain't no more than he deserves, Mawruss," Abe commented after Morris had read the letter. "No," Morris admitted, "but after the way Miss Kreitmann got that feller Gubin in the hole and the way she treated Adolph Rothstein, Abe, it ain't no more than she deserves, neither."
Seated on the fence, a number of rooks were directing intelligent black eyes upon the heaps of mud which lay around the coping of the well. And from time to time they fluttered their wings impatiently, and cawed. "I got you some work," Gubin continued in a grumbling tone, "and put heart into you with the prospect of employment. And now you have gone and treated me like "
For it would seem that in such places men have nothing to look for, nor any knowledge of how to look for anything; wherefore, they brawl and shout in vain attempts to dissipate despondency.... I myself was sitting near Gubin, but on the other side of the table.
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