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"I I know," stammered Leibel, feeling himself somehow a liar as well as a thief. His brain was in a whirl; he could not remember how the thing had come about. Certainly he had not proposed; nor could he say that she had. "You know she will have you," repeated Sugarman, reflectively. "And does she know?" "Yes. In fact," he blurted out, "we arranged it together." "Ah, you both know.
"But I've I've altered my mind." "One needs Hillel's patience to deal with you!" cried Sugarman. "But I shall charge you, all the same, for my trouble. You cannot cancel an order like this in the middle! No, no! You can play fast and loose with Leah Volcovitch, but you shall not make a fool of me." "But if I don't want one?" said Leibel, sullenly.
But Sugarman has seen her father several times," persisted Rose. "For so misshapen a maiden his commission would be large. Thou must go to Sugarman to-night, and tell him that thou canst not find it in thy heart to go on with the match." "Kiss me, and I will go," pleaded Leibel. "Go, and I will kiss thee," said Rose, resolutely.
"Leah Volcovitch has come to you," said Leibel, "but she shall not come to me." And he rose, anxious to escape. Instantly Sugarman gave a sigh of resignation. "Be it so! Then I shall have to look out for another, that's all." "No, I don't want any," replied Leibel, quickly. Sugarman stopped eating. "You don't want any?" he cried. "But you came to me for one?" "I I know," stammered Leibel.
Leibel admired the verbal accuracy of these statements, which he had just caught. "But I didn't know he would be having money," murmured Eliphaz. "Of course you didn't know. That's what the Shadchan is for to point out the things that are under your nose." "But where will he be getting this money from?" "From you," said Sugarman, frankly. "From me?" "From whom else? Are you not his employer?
You had best secure her while you have the chance." "But she halts on the left leg," cried Leibel, exasperated. "Gott in Himmel! Do you mean to say you do not see what an advantage it is to have a wife unable to accompany you in all your goings?" Leibel lost patience. "Why, the girl is a hunchback!" he protested, furiously.
They split the difference, and so eleven and threepence represented the predominance of Eliphaz Green's stinginess over Volcovitch's. The very next day Sugarman invaded the Green workroom. Rose bent over her seams, her heart fluttering. Leibel had duly apprised her of the roundabout manner in which she would have to be won, and she had acquiesced in the comedy.
Then chaos came, and pandemonium a frantic babel of suggestion and exhortation from the crowd. When five minutes had passed a legate from Eliphaz announced that his side had scraped together twenty pounds, and that this was their final bid. Leibel wavered; the long day's combat had told upon him; the reports of the bride's distress had weakened him.
"You won't charge me more than a sovereign?" "Not a groschen more! Such a pious maiden! I'm sure you will be happy. "H'm! Well, I don't mind!" "Perhaps they won't give a dowry," he thought with a consolatory sense of outwitting the Shadchan. On the Saturday Leibel went to see the damsel, and on the Sunday he went to see Sugarman the Shadchan. "But your maiden squints!" he cried, resentfully.
The face of his old acquaintance had vanished; this was a cajoling, coquettish, smiling face, suggesting undreamed-of things. "Nu, yes," he replied, without perceptible pause. "Nu, good!" she rejoined as quickly. And in the ecstasy of that moment of mutual understanding Leibel forgot to wonder why he had never thought of Rose before.
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