Mrs.Jacobs was left to discourse of the ailments of childhood and the iniquities of servants with Mrs.Phillips.Reb Shemuel's wife, commonly known as the Rebbitzin, was a tall woman with a bony nose and shrivelled cheeks, whereon the paths of the blood-vessels were scrawled in red.

The same bones were visible beneath the plumper padding of Hannah's face.

Mrs.Jacobs had escaped the temptation to fatness, which is the besetting peril of the Jewish matron.

If Hannah could escape her mother's inclination to angularity she would be a pretty woman.

She dressed with taste, which is half the battle, and for the present she was only nineteen.
"Do you think it's a good match ?" said Miriam Hyams, indicating Sam Levine with a movement of the eyebrow.
A swift, scornful look flitted across Hannah's face.