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And while you all lolled joyously at the Seder table, a bottle of blood lay here instead of the Consecration wine, like a bomb waiting to burst and destroy us all. A shudder of awe traversed the synagogue. 'But the Guardian of Israel, who permits us to sleep on Passover night without night-prayer, neither slumbers nor sleeps.
Never a lump of sugar or a cookie or a plum pilfered he would take them as bold as brass before your face if you didn't give. He said the night-prayer regularly. For the morning, Lord, Thou knowest boys want to be up and at mischief as soon as they have rubbed the sleep out of their eyes 'tis only natural. And the father a God-fearing man, and me a woman of piety.
Ali lighted the candle, supped at his ease and prayed the night-prayer; and presently he said to himself, "Come, take the bedding and go upstairs and sleep there; 'twill be better than here." So he took the bed and carried it upstairs, where he found a splendid saloon, with gilded ceiling and floor and walls cased with coloured marbles. And he answered, "Where be the gold thou hast to send?"
In her strange half-waking hallucination, her outstretched arms were clasped round little Sarah. She was putting her to bed and the tiny thing was repeating after her, in broken Hebrew, the children's night-prayer: "Suffer me to lie down in peace, and let me rise up in peace.
Solomon looked out of the corner of his eyes at his Bube, and, seeing she was asleep on the bed, said he had, and kicked Esther significantly but hurtfully under the table. "Then you had better say your night-prayer."
And then at bedtime she would say the Hebrew night-prayer with them and tuck them up, just as she had once done with her Fanny. But how if the woman refused to yield them up as Natalya could fancy her refusing out of sheer temper and devilry?
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