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Itzig looked with a malicious smile into his pale, agitated face. "So the rich, the great Christian banker, in the hour of his trouble, thinks that the poor derided Jew has a heart; I admit that I have a heart but what has that to do with money? When business begins, there the heart stops. No, I have no heart to lend you money!" Gotzkowsky did not answer immediately.
At any moment they could be driven off in case the rich Ephraim or the rich David Itzig, in the arrogance of their wealth, should venture to give to the world more than one child, and purchase for the sum of three thousand dollars another certificate of protection for the second! Of what avail was their wealth even to the rich Jews Ephraim and Itzig?
"Thank you, thank you," cried he, in a voice of deep emotion. "You have richly recompensed me, for I perceive that you love me, and nothing can be more beautiful than love." "Diamonds!" cried out Ephraim, as he made his way through the crowd with Itzig and a deputation of the Jews, toward the hero of the day "diamonds are more valuable than love, Gotzkowsky.
This was Ephraim, who, mindful of his conversation with Gotzkowsky, said to himself, triumphantly, "He has taken one lesson from me he has learned to despise mankind." But Itzig was only the more furious. "You wish our ruin," said he, angrily. "You will be ungrateful. The Jews, who made you a present of a handsome ring, have not deserved that of you. What will the world say?"
Beile was unattractive and uninteresting, and Itzig did not conceal from himself the fact that without a dowry it might prove difficult to bring her under the chuppe. Of late Itzig had had little time to think of his family.
"Oh!" said he, "remember the time when you swore eternal gratitude to me." "I never would have sworn it," cried Itzig "no, by the Eternal, I never would have done it, if I had thought you would ever have needed it!" "The honor of my name is at stake!" cried Gotzkowsky, in a tone of heart-rending agony. "Do you not understand that this is to me my life? Remember your vow!
"The Russian is not sold," cried he, "for Berlin will pay him the balance of a million and a half. Berlin has pledged her word, and she will redeem it." The countenances of those around grew dark again, and here and there were heard words of anger and wild resentment. "How!" cried Itzig, "do you require of the merchants to pay what they can keep for themselves?
Hirsch and Miriam could witness his suffering no longer, but went to their own room and gave free vent to the tears which would not be repressed. "Oh, if the answer from the Rabbi were but here," sighed Miriam. "Itzig will have just arrived in Tchernigof," said her husband, despondingly. "We can expect no answer until Monday morning."
"But the magistracy will be delighted to be able to show its gratitude toward you." "And the Jews will be delighted, too," cried Itzig. "The Jews are ready to help you." Gotzkowsky cast an angry look at him. "That is to say, you have calculated that it will not profit you if I do fail.
Yet here it was that Itzig Maier, his wife, and five children lived and after a fashion thrived. In one respect he was more fortunate than most of his neighbors; his hut possessed the advantage of housing but one family, whereas many places, not a whit more spacious or commodious, furnished a dwelling to three or four.
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