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who now and then appear m Berlin . I 6 nly hope , old schoolfenow , that you do not wish to break on our arrangement respectmg my daughter j it wouia be , nijr ae ^ rsecr ^ tar ^ a source of very > reat affhcticiii t 6 me to iSfid you " capable ofilecelt . ' This new suspicion quite put Mr . Tu ^ mwtif beside himself . He vowed that he loVe 3 AlbertineiVifH an unequalled love ; that he would submit to anything rather than lose her . Whilst Mr . Tusrnann was protesting , a knock was heard at the door , and old Manasseh entered the room . When Mr .
Tusmann perceived him , he exclaimed , ' < O heavens ! here is that old Jew who knocked g ^ ld pieces out of a radish ! I fear the other necromancer is not far off . ' So saying , he would have departed ; but the counsellor prevented him , and , turning to Manasseh , related what Mr . Tusmann had reported concerning what took place at the' new tavern in Alexander-place .
The old Jew smiled oddly , and said , * The gentleman entered the tavern with the goldsmith , Leonard , and drasik until he could hardly sit upright , and then ran out very suddenly . ' * You see , ' said the counsellor , * I guessed quite right . This comes of wine bibbing , which vice you must entirely renounce if
you wish to marry my daughter . ' Notwithstanding all his protestations the unfoituiVate Mr . Tusmann was well wrapped up in a cloak , and ^ nt home in a droschki to his dwelling in Spandau-street . vi
< Well , Manasseh , anything new ? ' said the counsellor , when they were alone . Manasseh , after much grimace and entreaty from the counsellor , informed him that his nephew , Benjamin IVlauasseh , worth several millions , who had been made a baron at Vienna , on account of his great merit , had fallen in love suddenly with Miss Albertine , and wished . to marry her .
The young Baron Manasseh was a well-known frequenter of the opera ; a tall , thin man , with umbrageous black whiskers , and a nose curved like a Damascene sabre ; a young man of great talent , who spoke several languages with the delightful accent of his co-religionists ; who sawed the violin ,, thumped the piano , scratched the harp , twangled the guitar , jumbled rhymes together , spoke boldly without knowledge or taste , dressed as only an illbred Jew dresses , and who was , in short , unbearable .
The counsellor could not help thinking of young Manasseh ' s millions , but , at the same time , he saw almost insurmountable obstacles . ' My dear Manasseh , ' said he , you forget that your nephew is of the old faith , and that— . —' ' My dear counaeUoy ; $ aid the Israelite ^ ' what does it matter ? a few drops of water shall not hinder the affair ; I mil return in a da ^ OT * two with the ^ b aro n , to learn your decision . '
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192 The Choice .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/48/
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