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THE
IMPORTED BRIDEGROOM
AND OTHER STORIES OF
THE NEW YORK
GHETTO
BY
ABRAHAM CAHAN
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1898
Table of Contents
| PAGE | |
| Imported Bridegroom | |
|---|---|
| I | 1 |
| II | 9 |
| III | 12 |
| IV | 22 |
| V | 34 |
| VI | 46 |
| VII | 59 |
| VIII | 71 |
| IX | 85 |
| X | 101 |
| XI | 107 |
| XII | 115 |
| A Providential Match | 122 |
| A Sweat-Shop Romance | 166 |
| Circumstances | |
| I | 192 |
| II | 196 |
| III | 205 |
| IV | 207 |
| V | 211 |
| VI | 220 |
| A Ghetto Wedding | 228 |
THE IMPORTED BRIDEGROOM
I
Flora was alone in the back parlor, whichshe had appropriated for a sort of boudoir.She sat in her rocker, in front of the parlorstove, absorbed in "Little Dorrit." Herwell-groomed girlish form was enveloped ina kindly warmth whose tender embracetinged her interest in the narrative with atriumphant consciousness of the snowstormoutside.
Little by little the rigid afternoon lightbegan to fade into a melancholy gray. Duskwas cr