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"I think you must have forgot the sugar, mother, or else the tea is viler than usual. Why don't you let Jane cut the bread and butter instead of lazing in the kitchen?" "Jane has been washing all day in the scullery," said Mrs. Hyams apologetically. "H'm!" snapped Miriam, her pretty face looking peevish and careworn.
Ephraim Phillips then placed fifteen shillings in silver before old Hyams, who thereupon inquired in Chaldaic: "Which wouldst thou rather give me thy first-born son, the first-born of his mother, or redeem him for five selaim, which thou art bound to give according to the Law?"
Left to himself, he smoked on contentedly, blandly undisturbed by the fact that the assistant looked in at the door occasionally, to see that things were all right. It was quite a new departure for Mr. Hyams to leave his parlor to a stranger, and the assistant felt a sense of responsibility so great that it was a positive relief to him when his master returned, accompanied by another man.
Daniel stood on the clamorous hustling wharf, watching the ship move slowly from her moorings towards the open river, and neither he nor any one in the world but the happy pair knew that Mendel and Beenah were on their honeymoon. Mrs. Hyams died two years after her honeymoon, and old Hyams laid a lover's kiss upon her sealed eyelids.
"I'll never speak to the girl again." There was a tense silence for a few seconds, then old Hyams said: "Why not? You love her." Daniel stared at him, his heart palpitating painfully. The blood in his ears throbbed mad sweet music. "You love her," Mendel repeated quietly. "Why do you not ask her to marry you? Do you fear she would refuse?" Daniel burst into semi-hysterical laughter.
Then the Head Mistress put on her eye-glasses and her face grew black and the sunshine seemed to go out of the room. And she said 'What! After all the holidays we have here, a month at New Year and a fortnight at Passover, and all the fast-days! I am surprised that you girls should be so lazy and idle and ask for more. Why don't you take example by your teacher? Look at Miss Hyams."
I examined them with care, and there was no doubt that they were trouser buttons. I even distinguished that one of them was marked with the name of 'Hyams, who was Oldacres tailor. I then worked the lawn very carefully for signs and traces, but this drought has made everything as hard as iron.
Daniel could not have described these things, nor did he speak of them, which was a pity. Once and once only in the ferment of free thought he had uncorked his soul, and it had run over with much froth, and thenceforward old Mendel Hyams and Beenah, his wife, opposed more furrowed foreheads to a world too strong for them.
"He doesn't like to be seen with us," Beenah Hyams thought. But she was silent. "He has never forgiven my putting him to the fancy goods," thought Mendel Hyams when told. But he was silent. It was of no good discussing it with his wife. Those two had rather halved their joys than their sorrows. They had been married forty years and had never had an intimate moment.
Miriam came in, fagged out from teaching. Old Hyams dropped from Yiddish into English. "You are right, he must." Beenah replied in her slow painful English. "Would he not have told us?" Mendel repeated: "Would he not have told us?" Each avoided the others eye. Beenah dragged herself about the room, laying Miriam's tea. "Mother, I wish you wouldn't scrape your feet along the floor so.
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