And to get those one must go to Dubno. Thus Deborah pays a visit to Sameshkin. Sameshkin is no longer sitting on the stove bench, he’s not home at all, it’s Thursday and the pig market, Sameshkin won’t return home for an hour. Deborah walks up and down, up and down outside Sameshkin’s hut, she thinks only of America. A dollar is more than two rubles, a ruble is a hundred kopecks, two rubles are two hundred kopecks, how many kopecks, for God’s sake, are in a dollar? How many more dollars will Shemariah send? America is a blessed country. Miriam is going with a Cossack, in Russia she can do that, in America there are no Cossacks. Russia is a sad country, America is a free country, a joyful country. Mendel will no longer be a teacher, he’ll be the father of a rich son. It doesn’t take one hour, it doesn’t take two hours, only after three hours does Deborah hear Sameshkin’s nailed boots. It’s evening, but still hot. The slanting sun has already turned yellow, but it doesn’t want to disappear, it’s setting very slowly today.
