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It is the end of forty years of evil suspense. It is crisis and solution." "I wish I could see it like that," said Mr. Carmine. "It is like a thaw everything has been in a frozen confusion since that Jew-German Treaty of Berlin. And since 1871." "Why not since Schleswig-Holstein?" said Mr. Carmine. "Why not? Or since the Treaty of Vienna?" "Or since One might go back."
Now, as such things, once begun, have no end nor limits, so it happened in the present case; for while I strove to attain the odd Jew-German, and to write it as well as I could read it, I soon discovered that I ought to know Hebrew, from which alone the modern corrupted dialect could be derived, and handled with any certainty.
In spite of all my willingness, I did not get at the matter without difficulty; for my teacher could not suppress certain sarcastic remarks as to the real truth about Hebrew. I concealed from him my designs upon Jew-German, and spoke of a better understanding of the original text. He smiled at this, and said I should be satisfied if I only learned to read.
For the Italian was found a musician, on his first trip into the world; while the youngest of all, a sort of pert nestling, had applied himself to Jew-German, the other languages having been cut off from him, and, by means of his frightful ciphers, brought the rest of them into despair, and my parents into a hearty laugh at the good notion.
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