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Children of the Ghetto

CHAPTER XI
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You know there's such a lot of religion in our house that I thought if I ever did get married I'd like a change." "Ha! ha! ha! So you're as the rest of us.

Well, it's plucky of you to admit it." "Don't see it.

My living doesn't depend on religion, thank Heaven.
Father's a saint, I know, but he swallows everything he sees in his books just as he swallows everything mother and I put before him in his plate--and in spite of it all--" She was about to mention Levi's shortcomings but checked herself in time.

She had no right to unveil anybody's soul but her own and she didn't know why she was doing that.
"But you don't mean to say your father would forbid you to marry a man you cared for, just because he wasn't _froom_ ?" "I'm sure he would." "But that would be cruel." "He wouldn't think so.

He'd think he was saving my soul, and you must remember he can't imagine any one who has been taught to see its beauty not loving the yoke of the Law.


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