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"It was bound to come," he muttered. "I have seen she was getting cold and thought it was Leah's work, but it seems she was true to her promise after all. Well, Leah is poor, and not of so good a family, but she is worth a dozen of such as Dulcibel Burton." Then after some minutes' silent striding, "I hate her though for it, all the same. Everybody will know she has thrown me off.
Mardocheus, who liked wine, laughed and said I was right, and drank for three. The weather continued bad, and I spent the rest of the day in writing, and after supper I retired and went to sleep. Suddenly I was aroused by a slight noise. "Who is there?" said I. I heard Leah's voice, whispering in reply, "'Tis I; I have not come to disturb you, but to justify myself."
And Rebecca, discerning the drift of his thought, recurred quickly to the subject, saying: "Well, my husband, what arrangement can you make for Leah's going? Of course you cannot accompany her." "That's easily done," he replied.
Yonowsky's public spirit died within his breast; Leah's coquetry vanished before a future unrelieved by visits from the black and friendly ambulance, and when Aaron climbed the well-known stairs that evening he heard, while he was yet two floors short of his destination, the shrieks of the twins, the smashing of crockery, and the grumbling of the neighbours.
Moses began to try and get me to purchase a ring from him, and I judged from that that I should not have to press them very much. "I can only buy this ring from Leah's hands," said I. He grinned, thinking doubtless that I intended to make her a present of it, but I was resolved to disappoint him.
I went to the Jewish wedding and enjoyed myself, for there is something at once solemn and ridiculous about the ceremony; but I resisted all Leah's endeavours to get me once more into her meshes.. I hired a close carriage from her father, which with the horses I placed in the coach-house and stables of my new house.
Go to the mother," said Malka angrily. "All my children are alike. It's getting late. Hadn't you better send across again for old Hyams?" "There's no hurry, mother," said Michael Birnbaum soothingly. "We must wait for Sam." "And who's Sam?" cried Malka unappeased. "Sam is Leah's Chosan," replied Michael ingenuously. "Clever!" sneered Malka.
No words reached him only the harsh, vibrant tones of Saul Jacobi's voice and Leah's low, piteous sobbing. He might have stood there until morning, but the door suddenly unlatched, and he had only just time to steal away; but before he could enter his room a few words did reach him. "Oh, Saul, please do not leave me like this.
Yes, she liked him; yes, she would walk with him and the twins along Grand Street in the early evening. Yes, she would wear her red dress since he admired it; but to marry him ah, no! Please, no! she was afraid of being married. Aaron was by birth and in his own country one of the learned class, and he promptly set about supplementing Leah's neglected education.
But Leah's view of life and marriage was tinged with no glory of romance. She had no illusions, no ignorances, and she was afraid, she told her suitor, afraid. "But of what?" asked the puzzled Aaron. "Thou canst not be afraid of me. Thou knowest how dear thou art to me. What canst thou fear?" "I'm afraid of being married," was her ultimatum.
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