THE GOD OF VENGEANCE
Where is Manke? There? (Pointing to a screened compartment.) There, with. . .
Hindel
Nods "yes."
Rifkele
Approaches the curtain of Manke' s room and listens with passionate intentness, looking around every other moment with palpitant apprehension.
Shloyme, very softly, to Hindel.
Tomorrow we must go and take a look at that house on Pivna Street.
Hindel
And when shall we be married?
Shloyme
First we've got to have a home.
Hindel
I wonder how much the Rabbi will ask for performing the ceremony.
Shloyme
As long as there's enough left to buy some furniture with. The place must make a decent showing. (The door is suddenly banged open and Yekel bursts in.)
Yekel, his face still hetrays signs of his cunning and of his youthful dissipation. He is
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