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Updated: June 12, 2025
"A Johnnie Reb, eh walking right into camp! That's right, Harry, keep him covered." He looked Cary over from head to foot with a sneer at his tattered uniform. "Well, sir," he asked, "who are you?" "A Confederate officer," was the quiet reply, "acting as escort for this child. We are on our way to Richmond." Cary's hand went into the breast of his coat and he drew out a folded paper.
All the little girls and the middle-sized girls and the pretty big girls copied letters in little squares, just so. There were so few of us that Reb' Isaiah could see everybody's page by just leaning over. And if some of our cramped fingers were clumsy, and did not form the loops and curves accurately, all he had to do was to stretch out his hand and rap with his ruler on our respective knuckles.
"Fathers are expected to do these little things for their own children. But how much nicer it would be if you could give me the Gett yourself." "I would marry you with pleasure," said Reb Shemuel, "but divorce is another matter. The Din has too much regard for a father's feelings to allow that." "And you really think I am Sam Levine's wife?" "How many times shall I tell you?
He was forever picking quarrels, forever challenging people to debate with him, forever offering to show that their interpretation of this passage or that was all wrong. The sound of his acrimonious voice or venomous laughter grated on Reb Sender's nerves, but he bore him absolutely no ill-will.
He laid his finger pleadingly on his nose. "I will tell her," said Reb Shemuel. "You are a son-in-law to gladden the heart of any man. But I fear the maiden looks but coldly on wooers. Besides you are fourteen years older than she."
Reb' Lebe knew enough to teach girls Hebrew. Tall and lean was the rebbe, with a lean, pointed face and a thin, pointed beard. The beard became pointed from much stroking and pulling downwards. The hands of Reb' Lebe were large, and his beard was not half a handful. The fingers of the rebbe were long, and the nails, I am afraid, were not very clean.
The soldiers were given some of the Indian weed, and the donor, turning to the impertinent officer, who had thought him a converted reb, said: "Young sir, do not judge by appearances; and for the future treat your elders with more respect."
Heaven alone knew if she would ever enter a synagogue again the visit would be part of her systematic farewell. Reb Shemuel took it as a symptom of resignation to the will of God, and he laid his hand lightly on her head in silent blessing, his eyes uplifted gratefully to Heaven. Too late Hannah felt the misconception and was remorseful.
She was a large woman with an interesting dark face, and poor Reb Sender cut a sorry figure by her side Men of his class are described as having "no acquaintance with the face of a coin." All the money he usually handled was the penny or two which he needed to pay for his bath of a Friday afternoon.
Couture was so enthusiastic about it that he wants it sent to Paris at once so that he can exhibit it in his own studio to some of the painters there. Then he is going to send it to the Salon. So you can tell that 'Johnnie Reb' to pass it along to me by the first steamer; and you can tell him, too, that his last letter is a month old, and I am getting hungry for another."
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