"How can you say that? Surely, merely as one who chanel bags sale was born a Jewess, you wouldn't care for the sombre picture drawn by this Armitage to stand as a portrait of your people."
     She shrugged her shoulders--the ungraceful shrug of the Ghetto. "Why not? It is one-sided, but it is true."
     "I don't deny that; probably the man was sincerely indignant at certain aspects. I am ready to allow he did not even see he was one-sided. But if _you_ see it, why not show chanel bags outlet the world the other side of the shield?"
     She put her hand wearily to her brow.
     "Do not ask me," she said. "To have my work appreciated merely because the moral tickled the reader's vanity would be a mockery. The suffrages of the Jewish public--I might have valued them once; now I despise them." She sank further back on the chair, pale and silent.
     "Why, what harm have they done you?" he asked.
     "They are so stupid," chanel bags she said, with a gesture of distaste.
     "That is a new charge against the Jews."
     "Look at the way they have denounced this Armitage, saying his book is vulgar and wretched and written for gain, and all because it does not flatter them."
     "Can you wonder at it? To say 'you're another' may not be criticism, but it is human nature."
     Esther smiled sadly. "I cannot make you out at all," she said.
     "Why? What is there strange cheap chanel bags about me?"
     "You say such shrewd, humorous things sometimes; I wonder how you can remain orthodox."
     "Now I can't understand _you_," he said, puzzled.
     "Oh well. Perhaps if you could, you wouldn't be orthodox. Let us remain mutual enigmas. And will you do me a favor?"
     "With pleasure," he said, his face lighting up.
     "Don't mention Mr. Armitage's book to me again. I am sick of hearing about it."
     "So am I," he said, rather disappointed. "After that dinner chanel bags outlet I thought it only fair to read it, and although I detect considerable crude power in it, still I am very sorry it was ever published. The presentation of Judaism is most ignorant. All the mystical yearnings of the heroine might have found as much satisfaction in the faith of her own race as they find expression in its poetry."