[Children of the Ghetto by I. Zangwill]@TWC D-Link bookChildren of the Ghetto CHAPTER VIII 4/31
"Otherwise where would be the fun of being grown up? After I leave school I don't intend to open a book." "No? Perhaps you'll open a shop," said Solomon. "What will you do when it rains ?" asked Esther crushingly. "I shall smoke," replied Levi loftily. "Yes, but suppose it's _Shabbos_," swiftly rejoined Esther. Levi was nonplussed.
"Well, it can't rain all day and there are only fifty-two _Shabbosim_ in the year," he said lamely.
"A man can always do something." "I think there's more pleasure in reading than in doing something," remarked Esther. "Yes, you're a girl," Levi reminded her, "and girls are expected to stay indoors.
Look at my sister Hannah.
She reads, too.
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