Sachel monologue — The Ghetto: A Drama in Four Acts

Let them throw it on the ground if they will! Every one tries to thwart me, every one but you; but they shall not! I am Sachel! Drink with me! Drink to Rebecca, your wife, Rafael! For this day I have seen Aaron; I have sat with him--yesterday and to-day I have sat with him! I have laboured with him, my boy; your father was not wanting! He would have squirmed into my house with eight thousand; but I raised him! I raised him two thousand, my boy! We have agreed, agreed! She is yours, Rafael--yours! To Rebecca, my daughter-in-law! Now will you drink--will you clink your glasses? [_He reaches about; no one clinks; RAFAEL turns away and pours his wine on the ground._] Where are you? I'm all alone! What's the matter? What's the matter?