The hope was expressed that Mr.and Mrs.Belcovitch would live to see "rejoicings" on their other daughter, and to see their daughters' daughters under the _Chuppah_, or wedding-canopy.
Becky's hardened cheek blushed under the oppressive jocularity.
Everybody spoke Yiddish habitually at No.

1 Royal Street, except the younger generation, and that spoke it to the elder.
"I always said, no girl of mine should marry a Dutchman." It was a dominant thought of Mr.Belcovitch's, and it rose spontaneously to his lips at this joyful moment.

Next to a Christian, a Dutch Jew stood lowest in the gradation of potential sons-in-law.

Spanish Jews, earliest arrivals by way of Holland, after the Restoration, are a class apart, and look down on the later imported _Ashkenazim_, embracing both Poles and Dutchmen in their impartial contempt.

But this does not prevent the Pole and the Dutchman from despising each other.