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'Let us wait a moment; he'll come along, and we'll give him a piece of our minds. 'Come home, father; I'm hungry, put in Peleg junior, who with various Barzinsky boys had been trailing in the parental wake. 'Silence, impudent face! snapped Barzinsky. 'If I was your father Ah, here comes the minister. Gabriel. I congratulate you on the effect of your last sermon.
Evidently Moses Barzinsky was a wealthy man; and his wife, a fat dame, with beady eyes and a preposterous black wig, served us up as good a meal as I've ever tasted. I complimented her on it when she brought in the samovar; for here, in the wilds, it didn't seem to matter about keeping up my pretended ignorance of the language.
'Or you can say Satan has taken Simeon and bound him, added the Parnass. 'You have a choice yourself or Satan. 'Perhaps you had better preach yourself, then, said the minister sullenly. 'I still can't see what that text has to do with Sabbath-breaking. 'It has as much to do with Sabbath-breaking as Potiphar's wife, shrieked Solomon Barzinsky.
'And he is sure to take a sudden death, put in Barzinsky with unction. 'He will not be buried among Jews, wound up the Parnass. 'Hear, hear! A murmur of satisfaction ran round the table. All felt that Simeon Samuels was cornered at last. It was resolved that the resolution be sent to him. 'Mr.
'You mean? said the Parnass, befogged in his turn. 'I mean, said Barzinsky, 'we could buy up his stock, me and the other marine-dealers between us, and he could clear out! 'If he sold it reasonably, added Mendel. 'Even unreasonably you must make a sacrifice for the Sabbath, said the Parnass. 'Besides, divided among the lot of you, the loss would be little.
Scarcely one of you carries his handkerchief tied round his loins like my poor old father, peace be upon him! You all carry the burden of it impiously in a pocket. 'I never noticed your handkerchief round your waist! cried the bewildered Barzinsky. 'Perhaps not; I never had a cold; it remained furled. Simeon Samuels' superb insolence twitched Barzinsky's mouth agape.
'Chutney is thicker than blood, put in the Parnass mysteriously. 'He'll simply try to palm off his stock on the deputation. Ephraim Mendel and Solomon Barzinsky jumped up simultaneously. 'What a good idea, said Ephraim. 'There you have hit it! said Solomon. Their simultaneous popping-up had an air of finality like the long and the short of it!
On the Sunday night Solomon Barzinsky and Ephraim Mendel in pious black velvet caps, and their stout spouses in gold chains and diamond earrings, found themselves playing solo whist in the Parnass's parlour, and their religious grievance weighed upon the game.
It would set up his bristles. Besides, there wouldn't be me left to appeal to. The congregation must keep some trump up its sleeve. No, a mere plain member must go, a simple brother in Israel, to talk to him, heart to heart. You, Barzinsky, are the very man. 'No, no, I'm not such a simple brother as all that. I'm in the same line, and he might take it for trade jealousy. 'Then Peleg must go.
Solomon Barzinsky smiled, with a gleeful imagining of the shattering of the shameless plate-glass.
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