“ ... There never was to my mind Such a funny mouth, for it would not shut; And the dented chin too--what a chin!... You were thin, however; like a bird’s Your hand seemed--some would say the pounce Of a scaly-footed hawk--all but! The world was right when it called you thin.” Meanwhile in London Bertie Lee-Harrison was celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles as best he could. He had given up with considerable reluctance his plan of living in a tent, the resources of his flat in Albert Hall Mansions not being able to meet the scheme. He consoled himself by visits to the handsome _succouth_ which the Montague Cohens had erected in their garden in the Bayswater Road. CHAPTER XI. I do not like this manner of a dance, This game of two and two; it were much better To mix between the pauses than to sit Each lady out of earshot with her friend. SWINBURNE: _Chastelard_. The Leunigers were giving a dance at the beginning of November, and the female part of the household was greatly taken up with preparations for the event. There was much revising of invitation lists, discussion of the social claims of their friends and acquaintance, and the usual anxious beating up of every available dancing-man. “Addie will bring Mr. Griffiths, and Esther Mr. Peck,” said Rose. “They go well, look nice, and one sees them everywhere, although Reuben calls them ‘outsiders.’” Rose loved dances, as well she might, for from the first she had been a success. Rose, with her fair, plump shoulders and blonde hair, her high spirits and good-nature, her nimble feet and nimble tongue; Rose with her £50,000 and twenty guinea ball-gowns; Rose went down--magic phrase!--as not one girl in ten succeeds in doing. “I suppose,” said Judith, “that the Samuel Sachses will have to be asked?” She, though of course she had her admirers, was by no means such a success as her cousin. “Yes, isn’t it a nuisance?” cried Rose; “and the Lazarus Harts.” If there is a strong family feeling among the children of Israel, it takes often the form of acute family jealousy. The Jew who will open his doors in reckless ignorance to every sort and condition of Gentile is morbidly sensitive as regards the social standing of the compatriot whom he admits to his hospitality. The Leunigers, as we know, were not people of long standing in the Community, and numbered among their acquaintance Jews of every rank and shade; from the Cardozos, who were rich, cultivated, could almost trace their descent from Hillel, the son of David, and had a footing in English society, to such children of nature as the Samuel Sachses. “We must have Nellie Hepburn and the Strettel girls,” went on Rose, consulting her list; “the men all rush at them, though I don’t see that they are so pretty myself.” “I suppose they make a change from ourselves,” answered Judith smiling, “whose faces are known by heart.”