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Updated: May 9, 2025
Shosshi Shmendrik was chatting quite gaily with Becky, and held her finger-tips cavalierly in his coarse fist, without obvious objection on her part. His face was still pimply, but it had lost its painful shyness and its readiness to blush without provocation. His bearing, too, was less clumsy and uncouth. Evidently, to love the Widow Finkelstein had been a liberal education to him.
Shmendrik, dropping suddenly from invective to insinuativeness. "Take fourteenpence. Shemah, beni! Fourteen Shtibbur's a lot of Gelt." "Are you a-going?" cried Abraham in a terrible rage. "Ten bob's my price now." Fourteenpence 'apenny. I am a poor voman. Here, fifteenpence." Abraham seized her by the shoulders and pushed her towards the wall, where she cursed picturesquely.
The share-list would close at noon on Monday. "But when Moses, our teacher, struck the rock," said Peleg Shmendrik, in the course of the discussion, "he was right the first time but wrong the second, because as the Talmud points out, a child may be chastised when it is little, but as it grows up it should be reasoned with."
He comes every morning with a bag of cakes or an orange or a fat Dutch herring, and now she has moved her machine to my bedroom, where he can't follow her, the unhappy youth." "Who is it now?" inquired Esther in amusement. "Shosshi Shmendrik." "Shosshi Shmendrik! Wasn't that the young man who married the Widow Finkelstein?" "Yes a very honorable and seemly youth.
"Gideon, the M.P., may be said to desire a Rod of Moses, for his secretary told me he will take forty," said Shmendrik. "Hush! what are you saying!" said Sugarman, "Gideon is a rich man, and then he is a director." "It seems a good lot of directors," said Meckisch. "Good to look at. But who can tell?" said Sugarman, shaking his head.
And yet Pesach Weingott played the fiddle merrily enough when she went to Becky's engagement-party in her dreams, and galoped with Shosshi Shmendrik, disregarding the terrible eyes of the bride to be: when Hannah, wearing an aureole like a bridal veil, paired off with Meckisch, frothing at the mouth with soap, and Mrs.
"Save us and grant us peace!" said the father in deprecatory horror. "Only Shosshi is so shy. You are aware, too, he is not handsome. Heaven alone knows whom he takes after." "Peleg, I blush for you," said Mrs. Shmendrik. "What is the matter with the boy? Is he deaf, dumb, blind, unprovided with legs? If Shosshi is backward with the women, it is because he 'learns' so hard when he's not at work.
"I did not know that," answered Peleg Shmendrik, "but I know that Moses's Rod was created in the twilight of the first Sabbath and God did everything after that with this sceptre." "Ah, but we are not all strong enough to wield Moses's Rod; it weighed forty seahs," said Sugarman. "How many seahs do you think one could safely carry?" said Meckisch. "Five or six seahs not more," said Sugarman.
Shmendrik, formerly the widow Finkelstein, ever received these dainties, she found her good man had purchased fish artificially inflated with air, and fowls fattened with brown paper. Hearty Sam Abrahams, the bass chorister, whose genial countenance spread sunshine for yards around, stopped Esther and gave her a penny.
"The Queen of Sheba probably brought sapphires to Solomon, but she was not a virtuous woman." "Ah, Solomon!" sighed Mrs. Shmendrik, pricking up her ears and interrupting this talk of stocks and stones, "If he'd had a thousand daughters instead of a thousand wives, even his treasury couldn't have held out. I had only two girls, praised be He, and yet it nearly ruined me to buy them husbands.
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