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Esther smiled faintly, not at Strelitski, but at Raphael's calling another man an idealist. She had never yet done justice to the strain of common-sense that saved him from being a great man; he and the new Strelitski were of one breed to her. "He will make Jews no happier and Christians no wiser," she said sceptically.
The pensive smile that made her face beautiful lit up the dark eyes. "What allegory is that of Raphael's?" said Strelitski, reflecting her smile on his graver visage. "The long one in his prize poem?" "No," said Raphael, catching the contagious smile. "It is our little secret." Strelitski turned suddenly to look at the emigrants. The smile faded from his quivering mouth. The last moment had come.
Gabriel Hamburg and Joseph Strelitski had both had relations with No. 1 Royal Street for some time, yet they had hardly exchanged a word and their meeting at this breakfast table found them as great strangers as though they had never seen each other. Strelitski came because he boarded with the Sugarmans, and Hamburg came because he sometimes consulted Jonathan Sugarman about a Talmudical passage.
Henry Goldsmith," said Strelitski with a slight accent of wonder. "Then it's a lie!" Raphael exclaimed, thrusting out his arms in intense agitation. "A mean, cowardly lie! I shall never go to see that woman again, unless it is to let her know what I think of her." "Ah, then you do know something about Miss Ansell?" said Strelitski, with growing surprise. Raphael in a rage was a new experience.
By good fortune I assisted at the foundation of the Holy Land League, now presided over by Gideon, the member for Whitechapel. I was moved to tears by the enthusiasm; it was there I made the acquaintance of Strelitski. He spoke as if inspired. I also met a poverty-stricken poet, Melchitsedek Pinchas, who afterwards sent me his work, Metatoron's Flames, to Harrow. A real neglected genius.
When Joseph Strelitski's father was sent to Siberia, he took his nine-year old boy with him in infringement of the law which prohibits exiles from taking children above five years of age. The police authorities, however, raised no objection, and they permitted Joseph to attend the public school at Kansk, Yeniseisk province, where the Strelitski family resided.
These strokes of true satire occasioned more merriment and were worth a biscuit to Solomon Ansell vice the son of the Shalotten Shammos. Among the inoffensive guests were old Gabriel Hamburg, the scholar, and young Joseph Strelitski, the student, who sat together. On the left of the somewhat seedy Strelitski pretty Bessie in blue silk presided over the coffee-pot.
"Is it so astonishing to you?" "Yes, it is. You are the first educated Jew I have ever met who believed in that sort of thing." "Nonsense?" he said, inquiringly. "There are hundreds like me." She shook her head. "There's the Rev. Joseph Strelitski. I suppose he does, but then he's paid for it." "Oh, why will you sneer at Strelitski?" he said, pained. "He has a noble soul.
"Orthodoxy is inextricably entangled with ritual observance; and ceremonial religion is of the ancient world, not the modern." "But our ceremonialism is pregnant with sublime symbolism, and its discipline is most salutary. Ceremony is the casket of religion." "More often its coffin," said Strelitski drily. "Ceremonial religion is so apt to stiffen in a rigor mortis.
"You know no more than the Reverend Joseph Strelitski vith his vite tie and his princely income." De Haan seized the poet by the collar, swung him off his feet and tucked him up in the coal-scuttle. "Yah!" croaked Ebenezer. "Here's a fine editor. Ho! Ho! Ho!" "We cannot have either of them. It's the only way to keep them quiet," said the furniture-dealer who was always failing.
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