For a married woman must sacrifice her tresses on the altar of home, lest she snare other men with such sensuous baits.

As a rule, she enters into the spirit of the self-denying ordinance so enthusiastically as to become hideous hastily in every other respect.

It is forgotten that a husband is also a man.
Mrs.Belcovitch's head was not completely shaven and shorn, for a lower stratum of an unmatched shade of brown peeped out in front of the _shaitel_, not even coinciding as to the route of the central parting.
Meantime Pesach Weingott and Alte (Fanny) Belcovitch held each other's hand, guiltily conscious of Batavian corpuscles in the young man's blood.

Pesach had a Dutch uncle, but as he had never talked like him Alte alone knew.

Alte wasn't her real name, by the way, and Alte was the last person in the world to know what it was.