"What have you got your new coat on for?
Any weddings to-day ?" "No, my dear," said Reb Shemuel, "marriages are falling off.

There hasn't even been an engagement since Belcovitch's eldest daughter betrothed herself to Pesach Weingott." "Oh, these Jewish young men!" said the Rebbitzin.

"Look at my Hannah--as pretty a girl as you could meet in the whole Lane--and yet here she is wasting her youth." Hannah bit her lip, instead of her bread and butter, for she felt she had brought the talk on herself.

She had heard the same grumblings from her mother for two years.

Mrs.Jacobs's maternal anxiety had begun when her daughter was seventeen.