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Updated: May 12, 2025
The flight of Tinowitz brought two compensations, however. David was promoted from the stove to the bedroom. For the lodger he replaced had likewise departed hurriedly, and when it transpired that the landlord had betrothed this young man to the second of the Tinowitz girls, David divined that the corn-factor had made sure of a son-in-law.
'But the eldest perhaps with a smaller dowry 'To tell the truth, Panie Tinowitz, it was the landlord who turned my head with false hopes. I came here not to promote marriages, but to prevent funerals! The corn-factor gasped, 'Funerals! 'A pogrom is threatened 'Open not your mouth to Satan! reprimanded Tinowitz, growing livid. 'If you prefer silence and slaughter said David, with a shrug.
The Biblical reference was more convincing to Tinowitz than a wilderness of arguments. 'Then, what do you propose? came from his white lips. 'To form a branch of the Samooborona. You must first summon a meeting of householders. 'What for? 'For a general committee and for the expenses. 'But how can we hold a meeting? The police 'There's the synagogue. 'Profane the synagogue!
I thank Heaven you will not be my son-in-law. Tinowitz ended by demanding time to think it over. David was to call the next day. When, after a sleepless night on the stove, he betook himself to the corn-factor's house, he found it barred and shuttered. The neighbours reported that Tinowitz had gone off on sudden business, taking his wife and daughters with him for a little jaunt.
'I can't wait for my locks to grow, said David, with a sudden thought. 'But if you care to introduce me to Tinowitz, you will not fail to profit by it, if the thing turns out well. The landlord rubbed his hands. 'Now you speak like a sage. Tinowitz read the landlord's Hebrew note, and surveyed the suitor disapprovingly.
'Tinowitz the corn-factor has daughters who are said to read Christian story-books, but is it likely he will risk their falling in love with a young man whose hair and clothes are cut like a Christian's? Not that I share his prejudices, of course. I have seen the great world, and understand that it is possible to carry a handkerchief on the Sabbath and still be a good man.
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