"
"Isn't it? Then why are you green with envy of me?" And once
more he burst into a laugh, with a graceful jerk of his head which
set my blood on fire
"You're a pampered idiot."
"You're green with envy."
"I'll break every bone in you."
We flew at each other, but Reb Sender and two other scholars tore
us apart
"Shame!" the Talmudists cried, shrugging their shoulders in
disgust
"Just like Gentiles," some one commented
"It is an outrage to have the holy place desecrated in this manner."
"What has got into you?" Reb Sender said to me as he led me back
to my desk
I resumed studying by heart with more energy than ever. "That's
all right!" I thought to myself. "I'll have that silk-stocking of a
fellow lick the dust of my shoes." I now took special measures to
guard my secret even from Reb Sender. One of these was to take a
book home and to work there, staying away from synagogue as
often as I could invent a plausible pretext. I was lying right and
left. Satan chuckled in my face, but I did not care. I promised
myself to settle my accounts with the Uppermost later on.
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