That, too, I can say aloud and to everybody
in the world, because it is the truth, the holy truth. May I not live
to see my children again if it is not.
There!" After a pause she resumed: "Well?"
I made no reply
"Will you come along and see the houses? It is not far from here."
"I have no time."
She took up some details tending to show that by buying those two
frame buildings of hers and selling them again I was sure to
"clear" a profit of ten thousand dollars
I made no reply
"Well? Will you come along?"
"Leave me alone, please."
"Ah, you are angry, aren't you?" she said, sneeringly. "Is it because
you haven't any money?"
The awkward scene that had attended Tevkin's attempt to get me
interested in his parcel haunted me. I craved to see him again and
to let him sell me something. To be sure, my chief motive was a
desire to cultivate his friendship, to increase my chances of being
invited to his house. The risk of buying some city lots in Brooklyn
seemed to be a trifling price to pay for the prospect of coming into
closer relations with him.
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