It cost him seven dollars.

He had nine dollars at the time.

Isadore is a flame, a kind of a torch in the wilderness." "How does the flame earn his living ?" "At first in a sweatshop," she replied.

"But he came to my school five nights a week, and at ten o'clock when school was out he went to a little basement cafe, where he sat at a corner table, drank one glass of Russian tea and studied till they closed at one.

Then he went to his room, he told me, and used to read himself to sleep.