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"But if I do this thing for you I shall want a pound more," rejoined Sugarman. "A pound more!" echoed Leibel, in dismay. "Why?" "Because Rose Green's hump is of gold," replied Sugarman, oracularly. "Also, she is fair to see, and many men desire her." "But you have always your five per cent, on the dowry." "It will be less than Volcovitch's," explained Sugarman.
Sugarman gazed at him with a cunning look of suspicion. "Didn't I say there was something sticking behind?" Leibel felt guilty. "But whom have you got in your eye?" he inquired, desperately. "Perhaps you may have some one in yours!" naively answered Sugarman. Leibel gave a hypocritic long-drawn "U-m-m-m! I wonder if Rose Green where I work " he said, and stopped. "I fear not," said Sugarman.
"With Leah Volcovitch!" "Leah Volcovitch!" gasped Rose. "Leah, the boot and shoe manufacturer's daughter?" Leibel hung his head he scarce knew why. He did not dare meet her gaze. His droop said "Yes." There was a long pause. "And why dost thou not have her?" said Rose. It was more than an inquiry; there was contempt in it, and perhaps even pique. Leibel did not reply.
And the white-haired head bowed immovably over its work. In the evening Rose extracted from her father the motive of Sugarman's visit, and confessed that the idea was to her liking. "But dost thou think he will have me, little father?" she asked, with cajoling eyes. "Any one would have my Rose." "Ah, but Leibel is different. So many years he has sat at my side and said nothing."
The formal engagement was marked by even greater junketing, and at last the marriage day came. Leibel was resplendent in a diagonal frockcoat, cut by his own hand; and Rose stepped from the cab a medley of flowers, fairness, and white silk, and behind her came two bridesmaids, her sisters, a trio that glorified the spectator-strewn pavement outside the synagogue.
"And when shall we tell thy father?" he asked, pressing her hand, as the next best thing to her lips. "As soon as thou art free from Leah." "But will he consent?" "He will not be glad," said Rose, frankly. "But after mother's death peace be upon her the rule passed from her hands into mine." "Ah, that is well," said Leibel. He was a superficial thinker. Leibel found Sugarman at supper.
And that is why Simmons's base desertion under his wife's very eyes, too is still an astonishment to the neighbours. One day it occurred to Leibel that he ought to get married. He went to Sugarman the Shadchan forthwith. "I have the very thing for you," said the great marriage broker. "Is she pretty?" asked Leibel. "Her father has a boot and shoe warehouse," replied Sugarman, enthusiastically.
"You don't mean to say that you give up a boot and shoe manufacturer merely because his daughter has round shoulders!" he exclaimed, incredulously. "It is more than round shoulders it is a hump!" cried Leibel. "And suppose? See how much better off you will be when you get your own machines! We do not refuse to let camels carry our burdens because they have humps."
"Then there ought to be a dowry with her," said Leibel, eagerly. "Certainly a dowry! A fine man like you!" "How much do you think it would be?" "Of course it is not a large warehouse; but then you could get your boots at trade price, and your wife's, perhaps, for the cost of the leather." "When could I see her?" "I will arrange for you to call next Sabbath afternoon."
Sugarman bent down, lowering his voice into the father's ear. "What! Leibel!" cried Eliphaz, outraged. "Sh!" said Sugarman, "or he will overhear your delight, and ask more. He has his nose high enough, as it is." "B b b ut," sputtered the bewildered parent, "I know Leibel myself. I see him every day. I don't want a Shadchan to find me a man I know a mere hand in my own workshop!"
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