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"He's a fine fellow, Mrs. Kaufman. With his uncle to help 'em, they got, let me tell you, a better start as most young ones!" She rose, holding on to the desk. "I I " she said. "What?" "Lena," he uttered, very softly. "Lena, Mr. Vetsburg?" "It 'ain't been easy, Lenie, these years while she was only growing up, to keep off my lips that name. A name just like a leaf off a rose.
Ach, you you make me ashamed before Mr. Vetsburg you should run down to the people we make our living off of." Miss Kaufman flashed her vivid face toward Mr. Vetsburg, still low there in his chair. She was trembling. "Vetsy knows! He's the only one in this house does know!
"If anybody's got a lease on you, Mrs. Kaufman, I I want it! I want it! That's the kind of a lease would suit me. To be leased to you for always, the rest of your life!" She could not follow him down the vista of fancy, but stood interrogating him with her heartbeats at her throat. "Mr. Vetsburg, if he puts on the doors and hinges and new plumbing in ." "I'm a plain man, Mrs.
Vetsburg, if I don't want I come back and find my house on the market, maybe rented over my head, I got to stay home for Shulif when he comes to-day." A rush of dark blood had surged up into Mr. Vetsburg's face, and he twiddled his hat, his dry fingers moving around inside the brim. "Mrs. Kaufman," he cried "Mrs.
For myself a smaller house without such a show and maybe five or six roomers without meals, you think ain't easier as this big barn? For what, baby, you think I always want you should have extravagances maybe I can't afford and should keep up with the fine girls what you meet down by Atlantic City if it ain't that a man like Meyer Vetsburg can be proud to choose you from the best?" "Mama! mama!"
"Yes, from holding in. Mrs. Kaufman, should a woman like you the finest woman in the world, and I can prove it a woman, Mrs. Kaufman, who in her heart and my heart and Should such a woman not come to Atlantic City when I got everything fixed like a stage set!" She threw out an arm that was visibly trembling. "Mr. Vetsburg, for God's sake, 'ain't I just told you how that she harum-scarum she ."
"You can see for yourself, Mr. Vetsburg, how in my brown silk all ready I was. Even even Ruby don't know yet I don't go. Down by Gimp's I sent her she should buy herself one of them red straw hats is the fad with the girls now. She meets us down by the station." "That's a fine come-off, ain't it, to disappoint " "At the last minute, Mr. Vetsburg, how things can happen. Out of a clear sky Mrs.
At that she quickened and fluttered. "Ruby and you! Ach, it's a old saying, Mr. Vetsburg, like the twig is bent so the tree grows. That child won't be so surprised her mother changes her mind. Just so changeable as her mother, and more, is Ruby herself. With that girl, Mr. Vetsburg, it's it's hard to know what she does one minute from the next.
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