The morning of the Great White Fast broke bleak1 and gray. Esther, alone in the house save for the servant, wandered from room to room in dull misery3. The day before had been almost a feast-day in the Ghetto4--everybody providing for the morrow. Esther had scarcely eaten anything. Nevertheless she was fasting, and would fast for over twenty-four hours, till the night fell. She knew not why. Her record was unbroken, and instinct resented a breach5 now. She had always fasted--even the Henry Goldsmiths fasted, and greater than the Henry Goldsmiths! Q.C.'s fasted, and peers, and prize-fighters and actors. And yet Esther, like many far more pious6 persons, did not think of her sins for a moment. She thought of everything but them--of the bereaved7 family in that strange provincial8 town; of her own family in that strange distant land. Well, she would soon be with them now. Her passage was booked--a steerage passage it was, not because she could not afford cabin fare, but from her morbid9 impulse to identify herself with poverty. The same impulse led her to choose a vessel10 in which a party of Jewish pauper11 immigrants was being shipped farther West. She thought also of Dutch Debby, with whom she had spent the previous evening; and of Raphael Leon, who had sent her, _via_ the publishers, a letter which she could not trust herself to answer cruelly, and which she deemed it most prudent12 to leave unanswered. Uncertain of her powers of resistance, she scarcely ventured outside the house for fear of his stumbling across her. Happily, every day diminished the chance of her whereabouts leaking out through some unsuspected channel.
About noon, her restlessness carried her into the streets. There was a festal solemnity about the air. Women and children, not at synagogue, showed themselves at the doors, pranked in their best. Indifferently pious young men sought relief from the ennui13 of the day-long service in lounging about for a breath of fresh air; some even strolled towards the Strand14, and turned into the National Gallery, satisfied to reappear for the twilight15 service. On all sides came the fervent16 roar of prayer which indicated a synagogue or a _Chevrah_, the number of places of worship having been indefinitely increased to accommodate those who made their appearance for this occasion only.
Everywhere friends and neighbors were asking one another how they were bearing the fast, exhibiting their white tongues and generally comparing symptoms, the physical aspects of the Day of Atonement more or less completely diverting attention from the spiritual. Smelling-salts passed from hand to hand, and men explained to one another that, but for the deprivation17 of their cigars, they could endure _Yom Kippur_ with complacency.
Esther passed the Ghetto school, within which free services were going on even in the playground, poor Russians and Poles, fanatically observant, fore-gathering with lax fishmongers and welshers; and without which hulking young men hovered18 uneasily, feeling too out of tune19 with religion to go in, too conscious of the terrors of the day to stay entirely20 away. From the interior came from sunrise to nightfall a throbbing21 thunder of supplication22, now pealing24 in passionate25 outcry, now subsiding26 to a low rumble27. The sounds of prayer that pervaded28 the Ghetto, and burst upon her at every turn, wrought29 upon Esther strangely; all her soul went out in sympathy with these yearning30 outbursts; she stopped every now and then to listen, as in those far-off days when the Sons of the Covenant31 drew her with their melancholy32 cadences33.
At last, moved by an irresistible34 instinct, she crossed the threshold of a large _Chevrah_ she had known in her girlhood, mounted the stairs and entered the female compartment35 without hostile challenge. The reek36 of many breaths and candles nearly drove her back, but she pressed forwards towards a remembered window, through a crowd of be-wigged women, shaking their bodies fervently37 to and fro.
This room had no connection with the men's; it was simply the room above part of theirs, and the declamations of the unseen cantor came but faintly through the flooring, though the clamor of the general masculine chorus kept the pious _au courant_ with their husbands. When weather or the whims38 of the more important ladies permitted, the window at the end was opened; it gave upon a little balcony, below which the men's chamber39 projected considerably40, having been built out into the back yard. When this window was opened simultaneously41 with the skylight in the men's synagogue, the fervid42 roulades of the cantor were as audible to the women as to their masters.
Esther had always affected43 the balcony: there the air was comparatively fresh, and on fine days there was a glimpse of blue sky, and a perspective of sunny red tiles, where brown birds fluttered and cats lounged and little episodes arose to temper the tedium44 of endless invocation: and farther off there was a back view of a nunnery, with visions of placid45 black-hooded faces at windows; and from the distance came a pleasant drone of monosyllabic spelling from fresh young voices, to relieve the ear from the monotony of long stretches of meaningless mumbling46.
Here, lost in a sweet melancholy, Esther dreamed away the long gray day, only vaguely47 conscious of the stages of the service--morning dovetailing into afternoon service, and afternoon into evening; of the heavy-jowled woman behind her reciting a jargon-version of the Atonement liturgy48 to a devout49 coterie50; of the prostrations full-length on the floor, and the series of impassioned sermons; of the interminably rhyming poems, and the acrostics with their recurring51 burdens shouted in devotional frenzy52, voice rising above voice as in emulation53, with special staccato phrases flung heavenwards; of the wailing54 confessions55 of communal56 sin, with their accompaniment of sobs57 and tears and howls and grimaces58 and clenchings of palms and beatings of the breast. She was lapped in a great ocean of sound that broke upon her consciousness like the waves upon a beach, now with a cooing murmur59, now with a majestic60 crash, followed by a long receding61 moan. She lost herself in the roar, in its barren sensuousness62, while the leaden sky grew duskier and the twilight crept on, and the awful hour drew nigh when God would seal what He had written, and the annual scrolls63 of destiny would be closed, immutable64. She saw them looming65 mystically through the skylight, the swaying forms below, in their white grave-clothes, oscillating weirdly66 backwards67 and forwards, bowed as by a mighty68 wind.
Suddenly there fell a vast silence; even from without no sound came to break the awful stillness. It was as if all creation paused to hear a pregnant word.
"Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One!" sang the cantor frenziedly.
And all the ghostly congregation answered with a great cry, closing their eyes and rocking frantically69 to and fro:
"Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One!"
They seemed like a great army of the sheeted dead risen to testify to the Unity70. The magnetic tremor71 that ran through the synagogue thrilled the lonely girl to the core; once again her dead self woke, her dead ancestors that would not be shaken off lived and moved in her. She was sucked up into the great wave of passionate faith, and from her lips came, in rapturous surrender to an overmastering impulse, the half-hysterical protestation:
"Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One!"
And then in the brief instant while the congregation, with ever-ascending rhapsody, blessed God till the climax72 came with the sevenfold declaration, "the Lord, He is God," the whole history of her strange, unhappy race flashed through her mind in a whirl of resistless emotion. She was overwhelmed by the thought of its sons in every corner of the earth proclaiming to the sombre twilight sky the belief for which its generations had lived and died--the Jews of Russia sobbing73 it forth74 in their pale of enclosure, the Jews of Morocco in their _mellah_, and of South Africa in their tents by the diamond mines: the Jews of the New World in great free cities, in Canadian backwoods, in South American savannahs: the Australian Jews on the sheep-farms and the gold-fields and in the mushroom cities; the Jews of Asia in their reeking75 quarters begirt by barbarian76 populations. The shadow of a large mysterious destiny seemed to hang over these poor superstitious77 zealots, whose lives she knew so well in all their everyday prose, and to invest the unconscious shunning78 sons of the Ghetto with something of tragic79 grandeur80. The gray dusk palpitated with floating shapes of prophets and martyrs81, scholars and sages82 and poets, full of a yearning love and pity, lifting hands of benediction83. By what great high-roads and queer by-ways of history had they travelled hither, these wandering Jews, "sated with contempt," these shrewd eager fanatics84, these sensual ascetics85, these human paradoxes86, adaptive to every environment, energizing87 in every field of activity, omnipresent like sonic great natural force, indestructible and almost inconvertible, surviving--with the incurable88 optimism that overlay all their poetic89 sadness--Babylon and Carthage, Greece and Rome; involuntarily financing the Crusades, outliving the Inquisition, illusive90 of all baits, unshaken by all persecutions--at once the greatest and meanest of races? Had the Jew come so far only to break down at last, sinking in morasses91 of modern doubt, and irresistibly92 dragging down with him the Christian93 and the Moslem94; or was he yet fated to outlast95 them both, in continuous testimony96 to a hand moulding incomprehensibly the life of humanity? Would Israel develop into the sacred phalanx, the nobler brotherhood97 that Raphael Leon had dreamed of, or would the race that had first proclaimed--through Moses for the ancient world, through Spinoza for the modern--
"One God, one Law, one Element,"
become, in the larger, wilder dream of the Russian _idealist_, the main factor in
"One far-off divine event
To which the whole Creation moves"?
The roar dwindled98 to a solemn silence, as though in answer to her questionings. Then the ram's horn shrilled--a stern long-drawn-out note, that rose at last into a mighty peal23 of sacred jubilation99. The Atonement was complete.
The crowd bore Esther downstairs and into the blank indifferent street. But the long exhausting fast, the fetid atmosphere, the strain upon her emotions, had overtaxed her beyond endurance. Up to now the frenzy of the service had sustained her, but as she stepped across the threshold on to the pavement she staggered and fell. One of the men pouring out from the lower synagogue caught her in his arms. It was Strelitski.
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A group of three stood on the saloon deck of an outward-bound steamer. Raphael Leon was bidding farewell to the man he reverenced100 without discipleship101, and the woman he loved without blindness.
"Look!" he said, pointing compassionately102 to the wretched throng103 of Jewish emigrants104 huddling105 on the lower deck and scattered106 about the gangway amid jostling sailors and stevedores107 and bales and coils of rope; the men in peaked or fur caps, the women with shawls and babies, some gazing upwards108 with lacklustre eyes, the majority brooding, despondent109, apathetic110. "How could either of you have borne the sights and smells of the steerage? You are a pair of visionaries. You could not have breathed a day in that society. Look!"
Strelitski looked at Esther instead; perhaps he was thinking he could have breathed anywhere in her society--nay, breathed even more freely in the steerage than in the cabin if he had sailed away without telling Raphael that he had found her.
"You forget a common impulse took us into such society on the Day of Atonement," he answered after a moment. "You forget we are both Children of the Ghetto."
"I can never forget that," said Raphael fervently, "else Esther would at this moment be lost amid the human flotsam and jetsam below, sailing away without you to protect her, without me to look forward to her return, without Addie's bouquet111 to assure her of a sister's love."
He took Esther's little hand once more It lingered confidingly112 in his own. There was no ring of betrothal113 upon it, nor would be, till Rachel Ansell in America, and Addie Leon in England, should have passed under the wedding canopy114, and Raphael, whose breast pocket was bulging115 with a new meerschaum too sacred to smoke, should startle the West End with his eccentric choice, and confirm its impression of his insanity116. The trio had said and resaid all they had to tell one another, all the reminders117 and the recommendations. They stood without speaking now, wrapped in that loving silence which is sweeter than speech.
The sun, which, had been shining intermittently118, flooded the serried119 shipping120 with a burst of golden light, that coaxed121 the turbid122 waves to brightness, and cheered the wan2 emigrants, and made little children leap joyously123 in their mothers' arms. The knell124 of parting sounded insistent125.
"Your allegory seems turning in your favor, Raphael," said Esther, with a sudden memory.
"What allegory is that of Raphael's?" said Strelitski, reflecting her smile on his graver visage. "The long one in his prize poem?"
Strelitski turned suddenly to look at the emigrants. The smile faded from his quivering mouth.
The last moment had come. Raphael stooped down towards the gentle softly-flushing face, which was raised unhesitatingly to meet his, and their lips met in a first kiss, diviner than it is given most mortals to know--a kiss, sad and sweet, troth and parting in one: _Ave et vale_--hail and farewell."
"Good-bye, Strelitski," said Raphael huskily. "Success to your dreams."
The idealist turned round with a start. His face was bright and resolute129; the black curl streamed buoyantly on the breeze.
"Good-bye," he responded, with a giant's grip of the hand. "Success to your hopes."
Raphael darted130 away with his long stride. The sun was still bright, but for a moment everything seemed chill and dim to Esther Ansell's vision. With a sudden fit of nervous foreboding she stretched out her arms towards the vanishing figure of her lover. But she saw him once again in the tender, waving his handkerchief towards the throbbing vessel that glided131 with its freight of hopes and dreams across the great waters towards the New World.
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