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The covers were beginning to come adrift, y'understand. The cook, he was slipping about, grousing all round. Then she stopped dead, and the lights went out. Something swept right over us with a hell of a rush, and I felt the deck give under my feet. The galley filled with water. 'Christ, she's done, shouted the cook. "We scrambled out.
Gladstein always done a good business in that store, y'understand, and if the widder is such a good-looking woman like you say she is, Abe, there's an opening for her to attract a big trade in gents' furnishings and hats up there, and at the same time keep the cloak-and-suit end going." "What d'ye mean attract a big trade in gents' furnishings and hats, Mawruss?" Abe demanded indignantly.
He's a gentleman, Abe, and them boys respects him. Besides, Abe, he practically started them two greenhorns in business. Twenty years ago, when them boys was new beginners, Kirschner brings 'em a good trade, y'understand; and not only that, Abe, if it wouldn't be for him them fellers wouldn't never lasted six months.
"Of course, Max," Abe added, using his partner's metaphor, "it ain't no skin off my nose, y'understand." "Ain't it?" Max growled as he turned on Abe with a menacing glare. "Well, it's a wonder it ain't, the way you are sticking it into other people's business. If you think I care what you think about what my boy eats for his lunch you are making a big mistake.
I'll shove you ahead of me into the saloon and if they there's four of 'em, y'understand cut down on me you'll be in the way." "But they'll down me!" "I'm counting on that." "But " "Aw, shut up, you skunk! You come out to Moccasin Spring on purpose to get me to come to Farewell and be peaceably shot by Doc Coffin and his gang. Can't tell me you didn't. I know better." "I didn't! I didn't!
"I am trying to drive into this, Abe," Morris replied: "B. Gurin is a good-looking, up-to-date feller, but he's in wrong with that store of his in Mount Vernon. In the first place, the neighbourhood ain't right, y'understand, and in the second place Gurin don't attend to business like he should; because he ain't married and he ain't got no responsibilities.
"So long as he's good on the inside, Noblestone," Abe said, "it don't do no harm if he ain't a salesman, because there's lots of fellers in the cloak and suit business which calls themselves drummers, y'understand Every week regular they turn in an expense account as big as a doctor's bill already, and not only they ain't salesmen, Noblestone, but they don't know enough about the inside work to get a job as assistant shipping clerk."
My little mother she was a humpback, Carrie, not a real one, but all stooped from the heavy years when she was helping my father to get his start. Well, anyway, that little stooped back was one of the reasons why I was so anxious to make it up to her. Y'understand?" "Yes Loo." "But you saw that mink coat. Well, my little mother, three years before she died, was wearing one like that in sable.
And anyhow, Mawruss, if the worser comes to the worst, y'understand, there's one thing you could always do. "What's that?" Morris asked. "Move out," Abe replied, as he started for the cutting room. "Yes, Mawruss," he commented, when he returned five minutes later, "you could knock the Italieners all you want, but you got to admit they ain't throwing their money into the street.
"Also it's got dry battery ignition, Abe," Morris concluded triumphantly, "instead of one of them now magneto arrangements, which I ain't got no confidence in at all." Abe nodded again. "I never had no confidence in dagoes neither," he said. "Fellers which couldn't speak the English language properly, y'understand, is bound to do you sooner or later."
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