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Old Hyams had thought it boundless opulence and was now sorry he had not done his brother a better turn. "It will be enough for us all to live upon, he and Beenah and me. You see his wife died and he has no children." "You don't really mean to go?" gasped Daniel, unable to grasp the situation suddenly sprung upon him. "How will you get the money to travel with?"
If Hannah could escape her mother's inclination to angularity she would be a pretty woman. She dressed with taste, which is half the battle, and for the present she was only nineteen. "Do you think it's a good match?" said Miriam Hyams, indicating Sam Levine with a movement of the eyebrow. A swift, scornful look flitted across Hannah's face.
One evening, at a large dinner-party at Governor Moore's, at which were present several members of the Louisiana Legislature, Taylor, Bragg, and the Attorney-General Hyams, after the ladies had left the table, I noticed at Governor Moore's end quite a lively discussion going on, in which my name was frequently used; at length the Governor called to me, saying: "Colonel Sherman, you can readily understand that, with your brother the abolitionist candidate for Speaker, some of our people wonder that you should be here at the head of an important State institution.
Daniel accompanied them to Liverpool, but Miriam said she could not get a day's holiday perhaps she remembered the rebuke Esther Ansell had drawn down on herself, and was chary of asking. At the dock in the chill dawn, Mendel Hyams kissed his son Daniel on the forehead and said in a broken voice: "Good-bye. God bless you."
One summer evening after Esther had passed into the hands of Miss Miriam Hyams she came to Dutch Debby with a grave face and said: "Oh, Debby. Miss Hyams is not a heroine." "No?" said Debby, amused. "You were so charmed with her at first." "Yes, she is very pretty and her hats are lovely. But she is not a heroine." "Why, what's happened?" "You know what lovely weather it's been all day?" "Yes."
Hannah danced little, a voluntary wallflower, for she looked radiant in tussore silk, and there was an air of refinement about the slight, pretty girl that attracted the beaux of the Club. But she only gave a duty dance to Sam, and a waltz to Daniel Hyams, who had been brought by his sister, though he did not boast a swallow-tail to match her flowing draperies.
Sugarman's family was highly respected," quavered old Hyams. "We are not at home now," said Miriam witheringly. "We're in England. A bad-tempered old hag!" "That is what she thinks me," thought Mrs. Hyams. But she said nothing. "Did you not see Daniel with her at the ball?" said Mr. Hyams, still visibly disquieted. "I'm sure I didn't notice," Miriam replied petulantly.
He forgot that he had a wider audience than his wife; he lost all control of himself, and cried aloud in a frenzy of rage, "What a pity thou hadst not a fourth uncle!" Mrs. Sugarman collapsed, speechless. "A greedy lot, marm," Sugarman reported to Mrs. Hyams on the Monday.
But de fact is, marm, I put it on to call on a lady. I only dropped in here on my vay." "Won't you take a chair?" said Mrs. Hyams. She spoke English painfully and slowly, having been schooled by Miriam. "No, I'm not tired. But I vill put Nechemyah down on one, if you permit. Dere! Sit still or I potch you! P'raps you could lend me your corkscrew." "With pleasure," said Mrs. Hyams. "I dank you.
"Well, and what did Miss Hyams say then?" asked Debby, deeply interested. "She said: 'Selina Green, and what did Moses do when the Children of Israel grumbled for water? She just went on with the Scripture lesson, as if nothing had happened." "I should tell the Head Mistress who sent me on," cried Debby indignantly. "Oh, no," said Esther shaking her head. "That would be mean.
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