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"My dear Leibel," said the marriage broker, deprecatingly shrugging his shoulders and spreading out his palms, "you can't expect perfection!" Nevertheless Leibel persisted in his unreasonable attitude. He accused Sugarman of wasting his time, of making a fool of him. "A fool of you!" echoed the Shadchan, indignantly, "when I give you a chance of a boot and shoe manufacturer's daughter?
"Not much of a rise that," said Esther smiling, for the Belcovitches had always lived on the third floor. "Oh, they could have gone to a better street altogether," explained Debby, "only Mr. Belcovitch didn't like the expense of a van." "Then, Sugarman the Shadchan must have moved, too," said Esther. "He used to have the first floor." "Yes, he's got the third now.
The father's voice relaxed, and his foot lay limp on the treadle. He worked one of his machines himself, and paid himself the wages so as to enjoy the profit. "How much will he have?" "I think he will have fifty pounds; and the least you can do is to let him have fifty pounds," replied Sugarman, with the same happy ambiguity. Eliphaz shook his head on principle.
Eliphaz looked almost tall in his shiny high hat and frilled shirt-front. Sugarman arrived on foot, carrying red-socked little Ebenezer tucked under his arm. Leibel and Rose were not the only couple to be disposed of, for it was the thirty-third day of the Omer a day fruitful in marriages. But at last their turn came.
"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.
"My Ebenezer is Barmitzvah next Shabbos week; vill you do me the honor to drop in wid your moder and fader after Shool?" Daniel crimsoned suddenly. He had "No" on his lips, but suppressed it and ultimately articulated it in some polite periphrasis. His mother noticed the crimson. On a blonde face it tells. "Don't say dat," said Sugarman. "I expect to open dirteen bottles of lemonade.
Fanny was ruinous in cups of chocolate and the pit of the Pavilion Theatre! 'I should want my fee down! said Sugarman sharply. Elias shrugged his shoulders. 'If you bring me the ring. 'I do not get old rings but new maidens, Sugarman reminded him haughtily.
And does her father know?" "Not yet." "Ah, then I must get his consent," said Sugarman, decisively. "I I thought of speaking to him myself." "Yourself!" echoed Sugarman, in horror. "Are you unsound in the head? Why, that would be worse than the mistake you have already made!" "What mistake?" asked Leibel, firing up. "The mistake of asking the maiden herself.
They are made for one another, the collector and the book; and it is astonishing how infrequently they miss of realizing their mutual happiness. The book-seller is a marriage-broker for unwedded books. His business is to find them homes, and take a fee for so doing. Sugarman the Shadchan was not more zealous than is your vendor of rare books.
It is true all marriages depend on money," he added bitterly, "only it is the fashion of police court reporters to pretend the custom is limited to the Jews." "Vell, I did go to Reb Shemuel," said Sugarman "I dought he'd be the very man to arbitrate." "Why?" asked Daniel. "Vy? Hasn't he been a Shadchan himself? From who else shall we look for sympaty?" "I see," said Daniel smiling a little.
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