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Thank you, Miss Kaplan, I knew you would be sympathetic." One hand was clenching and unclenching itself where Miss Kaplan, fortunately a young person whose own side of emotions occupied her exclusively, could not see it. Miss Kaplan kissed her, quite uninvited, again, said "Dear little war-bride!" and just in time, Marjorie always swore, to save herself from death, fled out.
"She is expected to be a wife, a mother, and a housekeeper," I reflected, "and that she will know how to be. Everything else is nonsense. I don't want to discuss Spencer with her, do I?" Kaplan quoted the opening words of a passage in the Talmud bearing upon piety as the bulwark of happiness. I took it up, finishing the passage for him "See?" he said to his wife.
His being so changed made it real for the first time. . . . And then an unworthy feeling as if she simply could not face the romantic and tender eyes of all the office everybody having the same feelings about her that Miss Kaplan had, even if they were well-bred enough to phrase them politely. "Shall we go?" she asked abruptly, while this feeling was strong in her. "Not for a minute.
When Halil had brought forward and defended his motion for a war against Russia, then Kaplan Giraj would argue against the project, whereupon Halil was sure to lose his temper. The Khan thereupon was to rush upon him with a drawn sword, and this was to be the signal for the Janissary officers to rise in a body and massacre all Halil's followers.
Kaplan, the cantor, and several other men, clustering together, lingered to bandy reminiscences of Antomir, interspersing them with "bits of law." The Kaplans occupied a large, old house on Henry Street that had been built at a period when the neighborhood was considered the best in the city.
In the days when I was a frequenter at the old house of prayer the social chasm between him and myself was so wide that the notion of my being engaged to a daughter of his would have seemed absurd. Which, by the way, was one of the attractions that his house now had for me "Good holiday, Mr. Kaplan!" some of the other worshipers saluted him, as he made his way toward his pew "Good holiday!
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