"You may think us a little weak ourselves," said Cohen, apologetically. "But my wife and mother wouldn't part with him if he was a still worse encumbrance. It isn't that we don't know the long and short of matters, but it's our principle. There's fools do business at a loss and don't know it. I'm not one of 'em."
"Oh, Mordecai carries a blessing inside him," said the grandmother.
"He's got something the matter inside him," said Jacob, coming up to correct this erratum of his grandmother's. "He said he couldn't talk to me, and he wouldn't have a bit o' bun."
"So far from wondering at your feeling for him," said Deronda, "I already feel something of the same sort myself. I have lately talked to him at Ram's book-shop--in fact, I promised to call for him here, that we might go out together."

"You may think us a little weak," said Cohen, apologetically. "But we wouldn't part with him if he was a still worse encumbrance. It isn't that we don't know the long and short of matters, but it's our principle."
"Oh, Mordecai carries a blessing inside him," said the grandmother.
"He's got something the matter inside him," said Jacob, correcting his grandmother. "He said he couldn't talk to me, and he wouldn't have a bit o' bun."
"So far from wondering at your feeling for him," said Deronda, "I feel something of the same sort myself. I talked to him recently at Ram's book-shop - in fact, I promised to call for him here, that we might go out together."
