The high contracting parties were signing the document as Becky returned.

The bridegroom, who halted a little on one leg, was a tall sallow man named Pesach Weingott.

He was a boot-maker, who could expound the Talmud and play the fiddle, but was unable to earn a living.

He was marrying Fanny Belcovitch because his parents-in-law would give him free board and lodging for a year, and because he liked her.

Fanny was a plump, pulpy girl, not in the prime of youth.