-- Bernard Malamud --
Not long ago there lived in uptown New York, in a small, just about spare room, though crowded with books, Leo Finkle, a rabbinical school-age child in the Yeshivah University. Finkle, after six years of study, was to be ordained in June and had been declare oneselfd by an acquaintance that he might find it easier to win himself a congregation if he were married. Since he had no present prospects of marriage, after two anguished days of turning it over in his mind, he called in Pinye Salzman, a marriage broker whose two-line advertisement he had memorise in the Forward.
The matchmaker appeared one night out of the no-account fourth-floor hallway of the graystone rooming house where Finkle lived, grasping a black, strapped portfolio that had been worn edit out with use. Salzman, who had been long in the business, was of slight that dignified build, draining an old hat, and an overcoat too short and tight for him. He smelled frankly of fish, which he loved to eat, and although he was missing a few teeth, his presence was not displeasing, because of an amiable manner interrogatively contrasted with mournful eyes.
His voice, his lips, his wisp of beard, his bony fingers were animated, but give him a min of repose and his mild blue eyes revealed a sagacity of sadness, a characteristic that put Leo a itty-bitty at ease although the situation, for him, was inherently tense.
He at one time informed Salzman why he had asked him to come, explaining that his home was in Cleveland, and that but for his parents, who had married comparatively late in life, he was unaccompanied in the world. He had for six years devoted himself almost entirely to his studies, as a result of which, understandably, he had found himself without time for a social life and the company of materialisation women. Therefore he thought it the better part of footrace and error--of embarrassing fumbling--to call in an experienced person to advise him on these matters. He remarked in passing that the function of the...If you exigency to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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