"I have sinned against you. Forgive me," I said, with downcast eyes
The Pole was puzzled
"I envied you," I explained. "I could not bear to hear everybody
speak of the five hundred leaves you know by heart. So I wanted
to show you that I could learn by heart just as much, if not more."
A suggestion of a sneer flitted across his well-fed face. It stung me
as if it were some loathsome insect. His golden forelock
exasperated me
"And I could do it, too," I snapped. "I have learned more than fifty
leaves already. It is not so much of a trick as I thought it was."
"Is it not?" the Pole said, with a full-grown sneer
"You need not be so stuck up, anyhow," I shot back, and turned
away
Before I had reached Reb Sender, who had been watching us, I
rushed back to the Pole
"I just want to say this," I began, in a towering rage. "With all your
boasted memory you would be glad to change brains with me."
His shoulders shook with soundless mirth
"Laugh away. But let Reb Sender examine both of us. Let him
select a passage and see who of us can delve deeper into it, you or
I? Memory alone is nothing.
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