He
then went on to intimate that if the unfortunate little situation
rendered it at all inconvenient for me to visit his house he did not
see why he and I could not continue our friendly relations
"If I have found as much grace in thine eyes as thou hast found in
mine," he wrote, "it would pain me to forfeit thy friendship. Let
the unpleasant incident be forgotten, then. I have a very important
business proposition to make, but should it fail to arouse thine
interest, why, then, let all business, too, be eliminated, and let our
bond be one of unalloyed friendship. I have been hungry for a
fellow-spirit for years and in thee I have found one at last. Shall I
be estranged from thee for external causes?"
Whereupon he went into raptures over a prospective real-estate
company of which he wanted me to be a leading shareholder.
Companies or "combines" of this sort were then being formed on
the East Side by the score and some of them were said to be
reaping fabulous profits.
My Hebrew, which had never been perfect (for the Talmud is
chiefly in Chaldaic and Aramaic), was by now quite out of gear.
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