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"Does your heart still ache?" he
asked without looking her in the face.
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"A little," she answered in a sub-
was Shorty Oiser's curt, unruffled dued tone.
We are at the preliminary fes-
"And what do your folks at home
reply.
tivities of an orthodox Jewish wedding
do when you have hese spells?"
"No, I must have it from his own
in pre-war Russian Poland. The pre-
"A cold wet towel helps."
lude is staged in the spacious parlor lips; I want him to tell me he won't
"Do you want to have one now?" he
of the bride's home in a typical pro- step up to veil the bride until the asked again without looking around.
last one hundred rubles of the dowry
vincial town in the midst of warm
"Yes; over there are a bowl of
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colors and dramatic setting dictated are put down in cash," he insisted.
water and a towel."
"Well you can have it if you must"
by the hallowed traditions of the race.
Groping in the (lark, David found
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The bridesmaids' are here in force, giv- Shorty Oiser again said in his un- the bowl, wet the towel, and handed
ing the final touches to the central ruffled manner. Rising and cooling it to her.
tableau in which the leading charac- up to the door, he called out: "David,
"l'ut it over my heart, David."
ter, the bride is sitting in state on Deem ,just step in.
"Where?"
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The groom sat surrounded by the
"Right here where my heart is."
the chair of honor
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of her bridal gown. She is sitting
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David applied the towel. Unwitting-
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here under the admiring gaze of the pound the prepared forensic piece of ly his hand touched her bare, warm
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The wedding band of provincial musi- the marriage cannon. But his inner- for her.
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teens are here to a man, lined up
"Is there no remedy for heart
around the bride with their instru- I most thoughts and heart-strings were
fixed elsewhere. Ile understood that disease? One could go to a great medi-
meats in position. From time to time
gro ,„.11 something was amiss and that the cal specialist," he said aloud as if to
all through. lie did himself.
the tension is broken by the
f
ider
the tern-)match might
of a violin string
antler
"No; I have been to doctors, to
h of
ite master's . not sense it as real disaster. If his
pinch
men
tieratal
double bass groans in the! father should stop the performance great doctors. They know no remedy."
finger. T
David sat in silence. lie now
painful, low pitched plaint, and Van- i before the canopy service, why, of
an intermin-
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bride as yet. Ile had seen her a always keep to her sick bed, always,
to his tuning up.
' The wedding bard is also here and couple of times at the betrothal when on Saturdays and holidays, always
ready to do his part. But the in- he and she signed the marriage con- sick and always sad, and perhaps this
: terminable wait has set his nerves tract and wished each other good luck. would harm the children as well; they
I a tingling down to his finger tips. Of course he felt overcome with pity would be born weak and sickly or
These finger tips Of his are plucking at the idea that a daughter of Israel perhaps there would not be any chil-
and twitching away at his racial was to suffer disgrace; but his father dren at all, and he alone would live
goatee — that poor little tapering surely knew what he was about, and with a sick wife. Outside the sun
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Ile felt bored by the long slay. merry„ rejoice and sing, the young
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irate fury on this innocent tuft.
He took another try at his nuptial married women would take walks in
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But the bridegroom with the silken lecture with now and then a wist- front of the synagogue while his wife
veiling cloth is not yet in sight. His ful and furtive peep into the next would be confined to her sick bed.
Ile thought no more of divorce. Ile
absence acts like a wet blanket upon room, where the bride was sitting. He
saw nothing but a white dress. No saw himself already tied down to a
the festive company. All become
pressed and gloomy. The mother of doubt the bridal dress appealed to sick wife and felt sory for himself.
the bride is sulky and restless. lier his emotions in a somewhat pleasur- Why, just a while ago he was a free
angry scowl suggests some grave able way, helping him to a realization young bachelor, happy, full of bright
trouble with the bridegroom, but no- of the fact that she was his heaven visions of the future, and now he
body knows just what it is all about. decreed bride. But, of course, the was already so burdened with sorrow.
The poor bride, tortured by dark fore- dress could not as yet evoke anything What had he (lone that such a lot
bodings of her maiden dreams cruelly deeper. When his father called him had been meted out to him? What
blasted, is sitting and waiting, pale in, he was sure the match was to (-rime had he committed to deserve
and trembling in an agony of shame, be won or lost by his decision, and such punishment?
Ile now accused or blamed no one
with her eyes and face buried in her so his heartbeats began to quicken.
but his unlucky star. He now felt
hands to hide the rush of hot tears
"David, do you want to marry on
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pity
for his young wife. Poor thing,
a nd smother the sobs convulsing her a three hundred ruble dowry?" his it was not her fault. He only wanted
frail frame. The girls, overcome by father asked.
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to
save
himself
from
the
impending
Pity for the bride, are doing their
"What do you mean? It's four
best to cheer her an and dispel the I hundred . here is the note."
The doom to find some ray of hope, and
all-prevading gloom. They laugh an
bride's father shoved the note into so he said:
"Pshaw! Doctors don't know every-
romp and shout in transports of glee, the groom's hand.
thing! The Lord's mercy may restore
calling upon the band to play. But
"What's in a note, a beggarly note?
the musicians, on their part are sunk It's nothing. The dowry in spot cash you to perfect health."
"The doctors said if I found a hus-
in a brown study tinged by fear and is only three hundred rubles. If you,
worry at the loss of the money staring Dave, are willing, well, then I won't band who would be good to tne, I
would regain my normal, healthy
them in the face in case the match is object."
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David's blood rushed to his face. heart."
He sat in silence. Her words cut
of girls with their violin bows.
In the three hundred rubles he sensed
into his heart with the sharp sting
"Move on, girls, no dancing just a deep slur, an affront to his worth.
of love. There was so much soft,
Why,
any
common
ruck
of
a
fellow
now; bide your time."
soothing sweetness in her voice that
The mother of the bride stands nowadays gets his four—five hundred
he felt quite overcome with emotion
bent over the weeping form of her in cash, and could he, with the
daughter, cooing and crooning at her phenomenal brains of a Talmudic and muttered:
"Well, what of it? The fact of the
consolingly: "The Lord will redeem erudite, a real intelligent prodigy
matter is that we two are heading
your shame, my child, He will make assiduously conning and poring over
for the same port under the same
the formidable folios pf abstruse lore,
good all you've suffered."
The sordid end of the affair in al l could he accept a paltry three hun- star."
He heard subdued weeping behind
its naked, unredeemed, commercialized dred- Time and again he had rejected
his back. Iler tears hurt him, and he
brutality is going on at the same time the most brilliant matches on the sole
in the next room where the fathers grounds that the dowry didn't soar said:
"Dora darling, don't cry."
pf the bridal pair are threshing out above the three hundred mark. And
"Why shouldn't I when my lot is so
the business details of the marriage should he now marry with this amount
bitter
and God has punished me so?"
agreement. Oiser, the groom's father, as his dowry, why he'd be disgraced
David could no longer resist. He
an undersized specimen of the race, b e fore his own friends, the young
in her breast and wept.
M sitting, with his withered, bloodless Jews gracing the sanctified study hid his face star,
"It is my my destiny too, Dora
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He is as dumb and unresponsive as groom! Ile was quite ready then and
the rocks. The father of the bride there to take off his coat and quit tears welled up from the font of
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"Oiser, don't disgrace me before the best of a had bargain. Ile donned
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mercy's sake, accept the note," he sitting with her hair loosened waiting suffered great hardship.
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This calamity of nature did not fail
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But the weazened, scrawny bit of silver and copper coins from the opportunity to display their racial dis-
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plea. Ile sits there just as before, booting and tongue-tied specimen of tims, the police found it necessary to
make raids on the streets, to gather
with his body rigid, without raising a Jew.
his eyes or moving his head, his mouth
"David, go and veil the bride," said up stray passers-by and compel them
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this undersized son of Abraham with to perform the hardest part of the
tightly shut.
From time to time one of the bride's the silver coin in the knotted kerchief cleaning up work. All the captured
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At night, when the bridal pair were ish citizens were mistreated in the
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as you know, are having a long sum- alone, the bride swooned in a fit of process of being enlisted.
mar's day fast."
I nausea. When David had sprinkled This matter has been brought to
"Fatally, the guests are breaking some water on her face and she had the attention of the Sejm by an in-
up; we'll be disgraced before the pen- come to herself she opened her eyes terpellation by the Jewish deputies,
pie." and looked at him bewildered and and an investigation has been request-
"What shall I do? Ile is sitting frightened. Iler look seemed to beg ed into the discriminatory actions of
here lik e a brigdand' the father of him for something. David could not the Warsaw police.
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She kept Frill. Her big eyes looked the theatergoing population of Vienna,
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"The groom will to as I tell him,
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"I am sick, David."
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"Your heart?" he shuddered, as he Vienna balls. This ballroom has been
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"Why didn't they tell me anything
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about it?" he asked angrily.
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"Father was afraid you wouldn't old Italian farce, "Valet of Two
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