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Updated: June 8, 2025
No respite was granted and the thirteen-year old lad was sent to Sokolk in the Government of Grodno at the other extreme of European Russia, where he was quite alone in the world. Before he was sixteen, he escaped to England, his soul branded by terrible memories, and steeled by solitude to a stern strength. At Sugarman's he spoke little and then mainly with the father on scholastic points.
And the white-haired head bowed immovably over its work. In the evening Rose extracted from her father the motive of Sugarman's visit, and confessed that the idea was to her liking. "But dost thou think he will have me, little father?" she asked, with cajoling eyes. "Any one would have my Rose." "Ah, but Leibel is different. So many years he has sat at my side and said nothing."
"We are ruined!" moaned the furniture-dealer, who was always failing. "You have ruined us!" came the chorus from the thick, sensuous lips, and swarthy fists were shaken threateningly. Sugarman's hairy paw was almost against his face. Raphael turned cold, then a rush of red-hot blood flooded his veins. He put out his good right hand and smote the nearest fist aside.
It gets on my nerves and I am so worn out. Would he not have told you what? And who's he?" Beenah looked at her husband. "I heard Daniel was engaged," said old Hyams jerkily. Miriam started and flushed. "To whom?" she cried, in excitement. "Bessie Sugarman." "Sugarman's daughter?" Miriam's voice was pitched high. "Yes." Miriam's voice rose to a higher pitch. "Sugarman the Shadchan's daughter?"
Becky tossed her head. "I've got a new dolman," she said, turning to one of her young men who was present by special grace. "You should see me in it. I look noble." "Yes," said Mrs. Belcovitch proudly. "It shines in the sun." "Is it like the one Bessie Sugarman's got?" inquired the young man. "Bessie Sugarman!" echoed Becky scornfully. "She gets all her things from the tallyman.
Shosshi gathered up his specimens in his arms and fled through the door. Becky was still in hilarious eruption outside. The sight of her made confusion worse confounded. The knobs and rockers rolled thunderously down the stairs; Shosshi stumbled after them, picking them up on his course and wishing himself dead. All Sugarman's strenuous efforts to patch up the affair failed.
If Daniel had taken back his words and told them he was happier for the ruin they had made of his prospects, their gait might not have been so listless. But he was a silent man. "You will go to Sugarman's, mother," he said now. "You and father. Don't mind that I'm not going. I have another appointment for the afternoon." It was a superfluous lie for so silent a man.
Thou knowest that he wishes us not to think that he remains single for our sake. All his money goes to keep up this house we live in. It is the law of Moses. Sawest thou not his face when I spake of Sugarman's daughter?" Beenah rocked herself to and fro, crying: "My poor Daniel, my poor lamb! Wait a little. I shall die soon. The All-High is merciful. Wait a little."
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