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The embarrassing silence reigned again, and reigned long. Rose broke it at last. "Is it that thou likest me better?" she asked. Leibel seemed to see a ball of lightning in the air; it burst, and he felt the electric current strike right through his heart. The shock threw his head up with a jerk, so that his eyes gazed into a face whose beauty and tenderness were revealed to him for the first time.
"Ah, but a wife is not a camel," said Leibel, with a sage air. "And a cutter is not a master tailor," retorted Sugarman. "Enough, enough!" cried Leibel. "I tell you, I would not have her if she were a machine warehouse." "There sticks something behind," persisted Sugarman, unconvinced. Leibel shook his head. "Only her hump" he said with a flash of humour.
Leibel's chalk marks continued indecisive that afternoon, which shows how correctly Rose had connected them with love. Before he left that night Rose said to him, "Art thou sure thou wouldst not rather have Leah Volcovitch?" "Not for all the boots and shoes in the world," replied Leibel, vehemently. "And I," protested Rose, "would rather go without my own than without thee."
The bridegroom's party was encamped in one room, the bride's in another, and after a painful delay Eliphaz sent an emissary to say that half the amount should be forthcoming, the extra five pounds in a bright new Bank of England note. Leibel, instructed and encouraged by Sugarman, stood firm.
And does her father know?" "Not yet." "Ah, then I must get his consent," said Sugarman, decisively. "I I thought of speaking to him myself." "Yourself!" echoed Sugarman, in horror. "Are you unsound in the head? Why, that would be worse than the mistake you have already made!" "What mistake?" asked Leibel, firing up. "The mistake of asking the maiden herself.
"I am not a man to bargain," Eliphaz said, and so he gave the young man his tawny hand, and a bottle of rum sprang from somewhere, and work was suspended for five minutes, and the "hands" all drank amid surprised excitement. Sugarman's visits had prepared them to congratulate Rose; but Leibel was a shock.
Eliphaz looked almost tall in his shiny high hat and frilled shirt-front. Sugarman arrived on foot, carrying red-socked little Ebenezer tucked under his arm. Leibel and Rose were not the only couple to be disposed of, for it was the thirty-third day of the Omer a day fruitful in marriages. But at last their turn came.
Afterward he remembered that she had always been his social superior. The situation seemed too dream-like for explanation to the room just yet. Leibel lovingly passed a bottle of ginger-beer, and Rose took a sip, with a beautiful air of plighting troth, understood only of those two. When Leibel quaffed the remnant it intoxicated him.
"An excellent thing!" said Sugarman. "A wife who squints can never look her husband straight in the face and overwhelm him. Who would quail before a woman with a squint?" "I could endure the squint," went on Leibel, dubiously, "but she also stammers." "Well, what is better, in the event of a quarrel? The difficulty she has in talking will keep her far more silent than most wives.
"Moses Mendelssohn had a hump," expostulated Sugarman, reproachfully. "Yes, but he was a heretic," rejoined Leibel, who was not without reading. "And then he was a man! A man with two humps could find a wife for each. But a woman with a hump cannot expect a husband in addition." "Guard your tongue from evil," quoth the Shadchan, angrily.
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