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Pinchas followed him soon, inwardly upbraiding Reb Shemuel for meanness. He had only as yet had his breakfast for his book. Perhaps it was Simcha's presence that was to blame. She was the Reb's right hand and he did not care to let her know what his left was doing. He retired to his study when Pinchas departed, and the Rebbitzin clattered about with a besom.
"At last," he said. "See, I have got it printed the great work which this ignorant English Judaism has left to moulder while it pays its stupid reverends thousands a year for wearing white ties." "And who paid for it now, Mr. Pinchas?" said the Rebbitzin. "Who? Wh-o-o?" stammered Melchitsedek. "Who but myself?" "But you say you are blood-poor." "True as the Law of Moses!
In the passage his shoulders relaxed their stiffness, so that the long snow-white beard drooped upon his breast. The three women looked at one another. "Mother," said Hannah, passionately breaking the silence, "are you going to stay here while Levi is dying in a strange town?" "My husband wills it," said the Rebbitzin, sobbing. "Levi is a sinner in Israel.
"I do hope it's a real swell who talks English properly." "And mind you make yourself agreeable to him, Hannah," said the Rebbitzin. "You spoil all the matches I've tried to make for you by your stupid, stiff manner." "Look here, mother!" cried Hannah, pushing aside her cup violently. "Am I going to have my breakfast in peace? I don't want to be married at all.
The little servant girl who opened the door for him looked relieved by the sight of him, for it might have been the Rebbitzin returning from the Lane with heaps of supplies and an accumulation of ill-humor. She showed him into the study, and in a few moments Hannah hurried in with a big apron and a general flavor of the kitchen.
"No, mother," said Hannah quietly, "thou and I shall go. I will tell father we are accompanying him." She left the room, while the Rebbitzin fell weeping and terrified into a chair, and Esther vainly endeavored to soothe her. The Reb was changing his coat when Hannah knocked at the door and called "Father." "Speak not to me, Hannah," answered the Reb, roughly. "It is useless."
"I will have my own way: I shan't go." The door was thrown open suddenly. "Oh yes thou wilt," said the Rebbitzin. "Thou art not going to bury thyself alive." Esther Ansell did not welcome Levi Jacobs warmly. She had just cleared away the breakfast things and was looking forward to a glorious day's reading, and the advent of a visitor did not gratify her.
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