Uncle Moses Author:Sholem Asch Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III IT was still dark when sorrow thrust Aaron Melnick forth from his home. His wife and children except Masha, were still fast asleep. Aaron had dres... more »sed very quietly, had tip-toed into the kitchen, lifted up the inverted pot, under which his wife kept the children's bread, and was about to take out a piece. But he suddenly thought of something, made a gesture and turned to the door. '' Papa where are you going 1'' Masha had grasped his hand. "Is that you, Masha? Why have you got up so early? Back to bed!" '' I heard you dressing. I won't let you go. I 'm afraid you won't come back." Aaron's lips curled into a hard, bitter smile. "Silly little goose, go back to bed. Do you expect to follow me around wherever I go ? I 'm going up to Uncle Berrel's. I must talk matters over with him. We'll go together to Uncle Moses.'' Masha looked her father straight in the eye. "Will you come home at night?" "Of course I will. Where else do you imagine I'll go?" Masha for the moment forgot that she was a '' grownup." Something came over her. Suddenly she nestled her head against her father's bosom and said: "Don't worry.—Why should you? We'll get out of this somehow or other. I'll get some groceries on trust. Don't worry, pa; everything will be all right." Aaron was somewhat vexed by the child's words, so he mumbled: "It's all right. Good-bye." And he hurried out. The sun was rising over lower New York. Like a foreigner entering a country for the first time it seemed to wander over the heaven's vast expanse, shedding before it streams of light that inundated the fields of the sky. The silence of night still reposed in deep slumber over the lofty towers and roofs of the down-town sky-scrapers. It was as if they were just stirring out of sleep, and t...« less