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Without awaiting permission he pushed a chair between Levi and Hannah and sat down; then he got up again and washed his hands and helped himself to a spare egg. "Here is your copy, Reb Shemuel," he went on after an interval. "You see it is dedicated generally: "'To the Pillars of English Judaism. "They are a set of donkey-heads, but one must give them a chance of rising to higher things.
"No, ye can't," answered the man, gruffly; "get out o' here. I never did nothin' for a Yank, an' I never will. I'd like to see yer all drove from the country. Get out o' here, I tell yer," he shouted, seeing that the sailors did not move, "or I'll let my dogs loose on yer!" "Why, I really believe he is a reb," said Archie; "he's the first one I ever saw.
As he finished speaking he perceived me for the first time, and his face changed instantly into cold sternness. I saw him sweep one hasty glance around, as though he suspected that I might not be alone, and his hand fell once more upon his sword hilt, in posture suggestive of readiness for action. "Who have we here?" he asked, staring at me in amazement. "A Johnny Reb?"
The sight was familiar yet it always struck the simple old Reb anew, with a sense of special blessing. "Good Shabbos, Simcha," said Reb Shemuel. "Good Shabbos, Shemuel." said Simcha. The light of love was in her eyes, and in her hair her newest comb.
All were jubilant, all were happy, and all were excited. With buoyant hearts and happy faces the preparations to move were made. Not having many possessions, everything was soon in readiness, and never was the order to fall in obeyed with greater alacrity, or with more cheerfulness, than was the order of the Reb Sergeant that morning at Danville.
I was repeatedly impelled abruptly to leave the meal, but refrained from doing so for Reb Sender's sake. I obtained two new "days." One of these I soon forfeited, having been caught stealing a hunk of bread; but I kept the matter from Reb Sender. To conceal the truth from him I would spend the dinner hour in the street or in a little synagogue in another section of the city.
The armies o' Patterson an' McDowell hem in all this forest, an' I reckon mebbe it wuz a good thing fur you that the storm came up an' you got past in it. Wuz you expectin', Johnny Reb, to ride right into the Yankee pickets with that Confedrit uniform on?" "I don't know exactly what I intended to do. I meant to see in the morning. I didn't know I was so far inside their lines."
"You're right he will. Good job, too. I hate a sneak like I do a side-winder." Reb turned to his prisoner. "Git a move on you, Roush. I want this job over with. I'm no coyote herder." The Round-Up Dumont had been on the grill for three hours. He had taken refuge in dogged silence. He had been badgered into lies. He had broken down at last and told the truth.
Oh, thank God! thank God!" There was a moment of tense silence. Then the old man's voice rose slowly and painfully. "Thank God!" he repeated. "Do you dare mention the Name even when you propose to profane it? Do you ask me, your father, Reb Shemuel, to consent to such a profanation of the Name?" "And why not?" said David angrily.
But let Reb Sender examine both of us. Let him select a passage and see who of us can delve deeper into it, you or I? Memory alone is nothing." "Isn't it? Then why are you green with envy of me?" And once more he burst into a laugh, with a graceful jerk of his head which set my blood on fire "You're a pampered idiot." "You're green with envy." "I'll break every bone in you."
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