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Be sure that Malka had returned the clothes-brush, and was throned in complacent majesty at Milly's table; and that Sugarman the Shadchan forgave his monocular consort her lack of a fourth uncle; while Joseph Strelitski, dreamer of dreams, rich with commissions from "Passover" cigars, brooded on the Great Exodus.
"Yes," said Sugarman the Shadchan, quickly; "but if his rod had not been made of sapphire he would have split that instead of the rock." "Was it made of sapphire?" asked Meckisch, who was rather a Man-of-the-Earth. "Of course it was and a very fine thing, too," answered Sugarman. "Do you think so?" inquired Peleg Shmendrik eagerly. "The sapphire is a magic stone," answered Sugarman.
And that is why Simmons's base desertion under his wife's very eyes, too is still an astonishment to the neighbours. One day it occurred to Leibel that he ought to get married. He went to Sugarman the Shadchan forthwith. "I have the very thing for you," said the great marriage broker. "Is she pretty?" asked Leibel. "Her father has a boot and shoe warehouse," replied Sugarman, enthusiastically.
"Moses Mendelssohn had a hump," expostulated Sugarman, reproachfully. "Yes, but he was a heretic," rejoined Leibel, who was not without reading. "And then he was a man! A man with two humps could find a wife for each. But a woman with a hump cannot expect a husband in addition." "Guard your tongue from evil," quoth the Shadchan, angrily.
Hannah Hayye, the only daughter of Raphael the Russian, going on sixteen, buxom, bright, capable, and well educated, could not escape the eye of the shadchan. A fine thing it would be to let such a likely girl grow old over a book! To the canopy with her, while she could fetch the highest price in the marriage market! My mother was very unwilling to think of marriage at this time.
The Ansells had numerous housemates, for No. 1 Royal Street was a Jewish colony in itself and the resident population was periodically swollen by the "hands" of the Belcovitches and by the "Sons of the Covenant," who came to worship at their synagogue on the ground floor. What with Sugarman the Shadchan, on the first floor, Mrs.
Why, we get the Co-operative Kosher Society to start with." "Yes, but we ain't: going to pay for that," said Sugarman the Shadchan. "That doesn't matter," said De Haan. "It'll look well we can fill up a whole page with it.
What did you mean by telling your wife you were sorry she had not a fourth uncle?" "Soorka knew what I meant," said Sugarman with a little croak of victory, "I have told her the story before. When the Almighty Shadchan was making marriages in Heaven, before we were yet born, the name of my wife was coupled with my own.
Featherbeds, linen, household goods of every sort everything was provided in abundance. My mother crocheted many yards of lace to trim the best sheets, and fine silk coverlets adorned the plump beds. Many a marriageable maiden who came to view the trousseau went home to prink and blush and watch for the shadchan. The wedding was memorable for gayety and splendor.
It has been put by for his marriage day." "He has saved it?" "He has not spent it," said Sugarman, impatiently. "But do you mean to say he has saved fifty pounds?" "If he could manage to save fifty pounds out of your wages he would be indeed a treasure," said Sugarman. "Perhaps it might be thirty." "But you said fifty." "Well, you came down to thirty," retorted the Shadchan.
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