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Children of the Ghetto

CHAPTER VI
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Thou canst find husbands quick enough for other men's daughters!" "I found a husband for thy father's daughter," said the Reb, with a roguish gleam in his brown eyes.
"Don't throw that up to me! I could have got plenty better.

And my daughter wouldn't have known the shame of finding nobody to marry her.
In Poland at least the youths would have flocked to marry her because she was a Rabbi's daughter, and they'd think It an honor to be a son-in-law of a Son of the Law.

But in this godless country! Why in my village the Chief Rabbi's daughter, who was so ugly as to make one spit out, carried off the finest man in the district." "But thou, my Simcha, hadst no need to be connected with Rabbonim!" "Oh, yes; make mockery of me." "I mean it.

Thou art as a lily of Sharon." "Wilt thou have another cup of coffee, Shemuel ?" "Yes, my life.

Wait but a little and thou shalt see our Hannah under the _Chuppah_." "Hast thou any one in thine eye ?" The Reb nodded his head mysteriously and winked the eye, as if nudging the person in it.
"Who is it, father ?" said Levi.


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