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'I certainly brought back none, said the Parnass, smiling in spite of himself. 'You have been in India? 'I have, replied the Parnass, with a happy inspiration, 'and I brought back to my wife something more stimulating than chutney. 'Indeed? 'Yes, the story of the Beni-Israel, the black Jews, who, surrounded by all those millions of Hindoos, still keep their Sabbath. 'Ah, poor niggers.
'Not at all, not at all, said the Parnass judicially. 'If a man breaks one commandment, that's no reason he should break two. 'But he does break two, Solomon thundered, smiting the green cloth with his fist; 'for he steals my custom by opening when I'm closed. 'Take care you will break my plates, said the Parnass. 'Take a sandwich. 'Thank you you've taken away my appetite.
'I don't come on my own account only, Barzinsky stammered. 'I understand. You want a contribution to the Passover Cake Fund. My time is precious, so is yours. What is the Parnass giving? 'I'm not begging for money. I represent the congregation. 'Dear me, why didn't you come to the point quicker? The congregation wishes to beg my acceptance of office.
'Ah, so that was at the back of it. I suspected something underhand in your offer. I was to be given office, was I, on condition of closing my shop on Saturday? No, Mr. Barzinsky. Go back and tell those who sent you that Simeon Samuels scorns stipulations, and that when you offer to make him Parnass unconditionally he may consider your offer, but not till then. Good-bye.
But as that worthy elder emerged from the synagogue, placidly snuffing himself, he found an excited gentleman waiting him in the lobby. 'Either that Reverend Gabriel goes, Mr. Parnass, or I resign my membership. 'What is it, Mr. Levy what is the matter?
When he descended, and the Parnass proffered his presidential hand in pious congratulation upon the holy privilege, all the congregants who found themselves upon his line of return shot forth their arms with remorseful eagerness, and thus was Simeon Samuels switched on to the brotherhood of Sudminsterian Israel.
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