What’s to appreciate? ” I say. “I’d prefer to imagine I comprehend more durable issues. ” “It’s now not anything you could grab with simply your head,” she says. “You need to suppose it—you need to suppose it with all of your middle! ” And on she went, my Hodl, her face flushed and her eyes burning as she talked. What a mistake it was once to move and feature such daughters! no matter what craziness they fall for, it’s head and center and physique and soul and existence and limb all jointly … good, enable me let you know, every week glided by, after which one other, and nonetheless one other, and one other, and another—eyn koyl ve’eyn kosef, there’s now not a letter, no longer a unmarried notice. That’s the final of Peppercorn, i assumed, my Hodl. There wasn’t a drop of blood in her terrible cheeks. for all time she did her top to maintain busy in regards to the residence, simply because not anything else helped take her brain off him—yet couldn’t she have acknowledged anything, couldn’t she a minimum of have pointed out his identify? No, no longer one syllable: you’d imagine that the sort of fellow as Peppercorn used to be a natural figment of my mind's eye … sooner or later while I got here domestic, although, i'll see that my Hodl have been crying; her eyes have been swollen with tears. I requested round and used to be advised that no longer lengthy prior to, a personality with lengthy hair were in the home and spoken to her in inner most. Oho, I stated to myself, that needs to be our high-quality buddy who is going approximately together with his blouse placing out and tells his wealthy mom and dad to leap within the lake! And with out pondering two times I referred to as my Hodl out to the backyard and positioned it instantly to her. “Tell me,” I requested her, “have you heard from him? ” “Yes,” she acknowledged. “And where,” I ask, “is your real love? ” “He’s a ways away,” she says. “And what,” I ask, “might he be doing there? ” “He’s doing time,” she says. “Time? ” “Time. ” “But the place? ” I ask. “For what? ” Hodl didn’t solution. She regarded instantly at me and stated not anything. “Just clarify something to me, Daughter,” I stated. “I don’t desire you to inform me that he’s now not doing time for horse robbery. And if he isn’t a thief and he isn’t a swindler, what solid deeds has he been placed away for? ” Eyn Esther magedes—mum’s the notice! good, i assumed, if you happen to don’t are looking to speak, you don’t need to; he’s your little bit of undesirable good fortune, no longer mine; could the Lord have mercy on him! … My center didn’t discomfort any much less, although. in spite of everything, she was once my daughter. you recognize what it says within the prayer e-book: kerakheym ov al bonim—a father can’t aid being a father … in brief, the summer time handed, the excessive Holy Days got here and went, and it used to be already Hoshana Rabbah, the final day of Sukkos. It’s my behavior on vacations to provide myself and my horse a breather, similar to it says within the Bible: atoh—you your self; veshorkho—and your spouse; vekhamorkho—and your horse too … in addition to, there’s not anything to do then in Boiberik besides; once Rosh Hashanah comes alongside, the entire dacha proprietors take off like a pack of hungry mice and Boiberik becomes a ghost city. It’s a great time to stick domestic and sit back a piece at the entrance droop. in truth, it’s my favourite season. every day is a present. The sun’s no longer as sizzling as an oven anymore and has a mildness approximately it that makes being out-of-doors a excitement.