But what _Narrischkeit_! Why should he die?
It isn't as if you were really married to him," said the Reb, his eye twinkling.
"But isn't it all absurd, father ?" "Do not talk so," said Reb Shemuel, resuming his gravity.

"Is it absurd that you should be scorched if you play with fire ?" Hannah did not reply to the question.
"You never told me how you got on at Manchester," she said.

"Did you settle the dispute satisfactorily ?" "Oh, yes," said the Reb; "but it was very difficult.

Both parties were so envenomed, and it seems that the feud has been going on in the congregation ever since the Day of Atonement, when the minister refused to blow the _Shofar_ three minutes too early, as the President requested.

The Treasurer sided with the minister, and there has almost been a split." "The sounding of the New Year trumpet seems often to be the signal for war," said Hannah, sarcastically.
"It is so," said the Reb, sadly.
"And how did you repair the breach ?" "Just by laughing at both sides.