She was as successful as her father before her.
The people continued to call her Raphael's Hannah Hayye, and under that name she was greatly respected in the business world.

Her eldest brother was now a merchant of importance, and my mother's establishment was gradually enlarged; so that, altogether, our family had a solid position in Polotzk, and there were plenty to envy us.
We were almost rich, as Polotzk counted riches in those days; certainly we were considered well-to-do.

We moved into a larger house, where there was room for out-of-town customers to stay overnight, with stabling for their horses.

We lived as well as any people of our class, and perhaps better, because my father had brought home with him from his travels a taste for a more genial life than Polotzk usually asked for.

My mother kept a cook and a nursemaid, and a dvornik, or outdoor man, to take care of the horses, the cow, and the woodpile.