"He was a terrible loss! So long as he lived there was Parnosseh, now, heaven help us, one may whistle for a dreier! There was no need to call in a doctor."
"And all through his Psalms?"
"You ask such a question? Why, it was as clear as day that he delivered from death."
"And no one died in his day?"
"All alive? Nobody died? Do you suppose the death-angel has no voice in the matter? How many times, do you suppose, has the 'good Jew' himself of blessed memory wished a complete recovery, and he, Satan, opposed him with all his might? Well, was it any good? An angel is no trifle! And the Heavenly Academy once in a while decides in the death-angel's favor. Well, then! There was no doctor wanted; not one could get on here. Now we have two doctors!"
"Beside the exorcist?"
"He was taken, too!"
"Gepegert?"[106]
"One doesn't say gepegert of anyone like that—the 'other side'[107] is no trifle, either."
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