Tailoring was a good trade then.

The few roubles I used to send her did not always reach her." "Thou hadst no right to send her anything, nor to send for her.

Mothers are not everything.

Thou didst marry my cousin Gittel, peace be upon him, and it was thy duty to support _her_ and her children.

Thy mother took the bread out of the mouth of Gittel, and but for her my poor cousin might have been alive to-day.