Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-09-24

You don't mean 10 say that you
give mp a boot and shoe manufacturer
merely because his daughter has
round shoulders be exclaimed in
credulously.
1T is more than round shoulders
1t is a hump" cried LeibeI.
Then I shall have 20 look out for
another. that's all. "
NO, I don't want any" replied
Leibel. quickly.
Leibel felt guilty. But whom
have you got in your eye;" he III
CURED. desperately.
Leibel gave a hypocritic long
drawn "U-m-m-m. l wonder II Rose
Green-where / work" be said,
and stopped.
Il fear not. =" said Sugarman. "She
is on my list. Her father gave her 70
me some months ago, but he is hard
TO please. Even the maiden herself Is
not easy. being pretty.
Perhaps she has waited for some
one. suggested Leibel.
Sugarman's keen ear caught the
note of complacent triumph.
You have been asking her your
self he exclaimed in horror stricken
accents.
"And if I have?" said Leibel, de
family.
And does her father know"
''Not yet"
All then must get his consent, y
said Sugarman decisively.
II thought OF speaking to hin
myself"
Now. II Won went to her father,
pursued the Shadcban, the odds are
that he would not even give hu
daughter-to say nothing OF th'
dowry.
Eyes. think you had better go,
said Leibel eagerly.
but if do this thing for you
shall want u pound more" rejoine'
Sugarman.
A pound more," echoed Leibel il
dismay. Why"
Because Rose Green's hump Is o
gold" replied Sugarman pracularly
Also, she is fair to see, and man
men desire her.
But you always have your five pc
cent on the dowry."
/ The very next day Sugarman invad
! Ell the green w0rkroom.
Sugarman's entry was brusQue an
breathless.
AT lsst,' be cried. addressing III
little white haired master tailor ''
. have the very man for you"
Z has he any money!" grumpily il
terrupted Eliphsz.
'He will have money" replied ST.
garman, unhesitatingIy, when
marrtes."
= "Ahr The fathers voice relaxe,
and his foot lay limp on the treadl
; How much will he have?"
Il think he will have fifty pound
- and the least You can do is to let hi
have ffty pounds. replied Sugarmal
with the same happy ambiguity.
Eliphaz shook his head on prime
Pile
/ Yes, you will, said Sugarma,
e "when you learn how fine a man he is
I Tell me, them" reioined Elipha
' Tell me. first, if you will give IF
5 TO a young, healthy, hard-workiI
' God-feariag man whose idea is to sta
n as master tailor on his own accoun
{ And you know how profitable that is
i ITO a man like that, said Ehpha
: in burst of enthusiasm, 81 would gi
II as much as twenty-seven pounds ten
UNLESS you can promise thirty 1t
= a waste of time mentioning his name
said Sugarman.
IS ''Well, well-who Is ne2'
Sugarman bent down. lowering L
1t voice into his fathers ear
Il What Leibell" cried Elipha
II outraged
A. "Shr' said Sugarman, cor he "
D. overhear your delight. and ask MOI
He has has nose high enough as II Is
id "B-b--b-ut. sputtered the
st wildered parent. II know Leil
myself. / see him every day. / dol
in want a Shadchan to find me man
E. know mere hand in my own VOL
shop"
DID "Your talk has neither race nor I
ps ure," answered Sngarman. stern
lit is just the people one sees eve
>" day that one knows least.
ng Eliphaz granted vaguely and
on Shadchan went on triumphan:ly.
an thought IS much. AID Vet wh