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Children of the Ghetto

CHAPTER XIII
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She will halt on one leg.' Came then the spirit of her second uncle and said: 'Angel, what blazonest thou?
A niece of mine marry a man of such family ?' Says the Angel: 'Sh! It is all right.

She will be blind in one eye.' Came the spirit of her third uncle and said: 'Angel, hast thou not erred?
Surely thou canst not mean to marry my future niece into such a humble family.' Said the Angel: 'Sh! It is all right.

She will be deaf in one ear.' Now, do you see?
If she had only had a fourth uncle, she would have been dumb into the bargain; there is only one mouth and my life would have been a happy one.

Before I told Soorka that history she used to throw up her better breeding and finer family to me.

Even in public she would shed my blood.


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