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Updated: May 12, 2025
On the Sunday night Solomon Barzinsky and Ephraim Mendel in pious black velvet caps, and their stout spouses in gold chains and diamond earrings, found themselves playing solo whist in the Parnass's parlour, and their religious grievance weighed upon the game.
A pretty libel, indeed! The Parnass's complacency collapsed like an air-ball at a pin-prick. 'Oh, nonsense, everybody knows he couldn't mean you. 'I don't know so much. There are always people ready to think one has just been discovered keeping a back-door open or something. I shouldn't be at all surprised to get a letter from my father-in-law in London you know how pious old Cohn is!
The Talmudical prohibition cited by Mendel applies to that too. 'So I wasn't so silly, put in the Parnass's wife, feeling vaguely vindicated. 'Well, you saw his wife, said the Parnass to Mendel's wife, disregarding his own. 'More than I've done, for she wasn't in synagogue. Perhaps she is the Christian partner. His suggestion brought a new and holier horror over the card-table.
The report of the pastor's collapse produced an emergency meeting of the leading sheep. The mid-day dinner-hour was chosen as the slackest. A babble of suggestions filled the Parnass's parlour. Solomon Barzinsky kept sternly repeating his Delenda est Carthago: 'He must be expelled from the congregation. 'He should be expelled from the town altogether, said Mendel.
'I know, because I went to the shop Friday morning on pretence of asking for a cuckoo-clock. 'But a marine-dealer doesn't sell clocks, put in the Parnass's wife timidly. It was her first contribution to the conversation, for she was overpowered by her husband's greatness. 'Don't be silly, Hannah! said the Parnass. 'That was just why Mrs. Mendel asked for it.
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