Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... GOD'S REMNANTS BLACK FLAME I HE morose face of old Zelig Kamnitzer grew less wrinkled and sullen as he lis J. tened to his interlocutor, and the Hues of the severe mouth seemed to soften into something like an air of benevolence. Calman Schwartz saw it and took heart, and his words came out swifter than ever. When he had quite finished, Zelig Kamnitzer drew a few heavy puffs from his pipe, and looked hard at him for some seconds. "So you want to marry my Gnendel? " he at last summed up the young man's request. "You have known it for a long time," was the eager reply. Zelig nodded. "And do you know what it will mean to marry my Gnendel?" he asked again. "That I shall be the happiest man in the world, Zelig." The old man rose with a harsh, disagreeable laugh, and strode up and down the chamber. Calman watched him with renewed apprehension. Was Zelig going to refuse him after all? "Perhaps I ought to impress upon you again that 1 I can afford to marry, Zelig," he said, a slight tremor in his voice. "My business is growing. This week I was offered another two hundred gulden credit if I wanted it. I am thinking--I have mentioned it to you before--in a few months perhaps I shall move from Kumick to a larger town---to Tarnow or Pschemischel..." Zelig turned to him with the same disagreeable laugh as before. "Quite right, my boy! Unpack all your greatness; dazzle me with your riches. I tell you, it doesn't want much to dazzle a pauper like me. Look "--he swept his arm round fiercely to indicate the contents of the miserable apartment--" all my worldly belongings wouldn't fetch two hundred kreutzers by auction. And my credit--I went the other night to get a tallow candle on tick, and the chandler wouldn't let me have it. What do you say to that, ...
