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"I am not a man to bargain," Eliphaz said, and so he gave the young man his tawny hand, and a bottle of rum sprang from somewhere, and work was suspended for five minutes, and the "hands" all drank amid surprised excitement. Sugarman's visits had prepared them to congratulate Rose; but Leibel was a shock.
The Maggid felt so grateful he was almost ashamed to ask whether he could eat kosher there, but the Shalotten Shammos, who had the air of a tall encyclopaedia, set his soul at rest on all points. The day of Ebenezer Sugarman's Bar-mitzvah duly arrived. All his sins would henceforth be on his own head and everybody rejoiced.
And he turned and spoke to the astonished Bessie, and so the two strange lonely vessels that had hailed each other across the darkness drifted away and apart for ever in the waste of waters. But Jonathan Sugarman's eye was on more tragic episodes.
"She is on my list. Her father gave her to me some months ago, but he is hard to please. Even the maiden herself is not easy, being pretty." "Perhaps she has waited for some one," suggested Leibel. Sugarman's keen ear caught the note of complacent triumph. "You have been asking her yourself!" he exclaimed, in horror-stricken accents. "And if I have?" said Leibel, defiantly. "You have cheated me!
We must redress the balance. We must plead the cause of the People against the Few." Raphael's breast throbbed with similar hopes. His Messianic emotions resurged. Sugarman's solicitous request that he should buy a Hamburg Lottery Ticket scarcely penetrated his consciousness. Carrying the copy of the poster, he accompanied De Haan to Gluck's.
Sugarman's family was highly respected," quavered old Hyams. "We are not at home now," said Miriam witheringly. "We're in England. A bad-tempered old hag!" "That is what she thinks me," thought Mrs. Hyams. But she said nothing. "Did you not see Daniel with her at the ball?" said Mr. Hyams, still visibly disquieted. "I'm sure I didn't notice," Miriam replied petulantly.
Love is blind, and even marriage-brokers may be myopic. Most people not concerned knew that Daniel Hyams was "sweet on" Sugarman's Bessie. And it was so. Daniel loved Bessie, and Bessie loved Daniel. Only Bessie did not speak because she was a woman and Daniel did not speak because he was a man. They were a quiet family the Hyamses. They all bore their crosses in a silence unbroken even at home.
'I have come on behalf of Elias Goldenberg. 'It is useless. I will not have him. And she was shutting the door. Her misconception, wilful or not, scattered all Sugarman's prepared diplomacies. 'He does not want you, he wants the ring, he cried hastily. Fanny indecorously put a finger to her nose. The diamond glittered mockingly on it. Then she turned away giggling.
There was a note of anxiety in old Hyams's voice. "Naught, Mendel." "Thou hast not heard talk of him and Sugarman's daughter?" "No, is there aught between them?" The listless old woman spoke a little eagerly. "Only that a man told me that his son saw our Daniel pay court to the maiden." "Where?" "At the Purim Ball." "The man is a tool; a youth must dance with some maiden or other."
At the least it would save her the trouble of father-taming. Sugarman's entry was brusque and breathless. He was overwhelmed with joyous emotion. His blue bandana trailed agitatedly from his coat-tail. "At last!" he cried, addressing the little white-haired master tailor; "I have the very man for you." "Yes?" grunted Eliphaz, unimpressed. The monosyllable was packed with emotion.
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