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    THE
    IMPORTED BRIDEGROOM
    AND OTHER STORIES OF
    THE NEW YORK
    GHETTO

    BY

    ABRAHAM CAHAN

  [Illustration]

    BOSTON AND NEW YORK
    HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
    The Riverside Press, Cambridge
    1898




THE IMPORTED BRIDEGROOM




I


Flora was alone in the back parlor, which she had appropriated for a
sort of boudoir. She sat in her rocker, in front of the parlor stove,
