This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...the more it aches. Sad forebodings have entered it and have crowded all the pride and happiness out of it. (Sighs. Unlocks a drawer in his desk and takes from it a leather booklet containing two pichires of his deceased wife. Gases at the pictures; then covers up with his finger the upper part of one of them, then the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...the more it aches. Sad forebodings have entered it and have crowded all the pride and happiness out of it. (Sighs. Unlocks a drawer in his desk and takes from it a leather booklet containing two pichires of his deceased wife. Gases at the pictures; then covers up with his finger the upper part of one of them, then the lower, and again the upper.) Positively, except the eyes, the similarity is but slight. Yet... I can't understand it. The resemblance is at times so awfully suggestive. What may that be? Or is anything the matter with me? (Gazing at the pictures.) Or is it the expression of the eyes? This sad and saddening look, so full of alarm and entreaty, at once pitying and appealing? (Gazing away from the pictures into vacancy, shakes his head slowly.) Yes, yes. I know that look. Oh, I know it too well. Poor, suffering mother has it. Esther has it, Sarah the maid has it. Every Jewish woman has it. More pronounced or less, what matters it? It's there all the time, among all classes and in all conditions of life. It's our national characteristic, that anxious look of alarm, so full of pity and appeal. All-wise Providence was pleased to stamp it upon the mothers of our race. Two thousand years of persecution have not passed over our heads without leaving a deep sear in the tortured soul. From mother to daughter, for generations and generations, has it been transmitted, this constant fear, this blood-curdling, brain-chilling, petrifying fear of lurking dangers and impending disasters to beloved ones, to dear ones. Woe's me, woe's me! What else could all this savage persecution leave in the aching Jewish heart if not this intense, longing appeal for mercy, mercy, mercy--which was never, never granted, not even to the innocent babe in its cradle. Christians th...
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