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I will give it to you instead ; and if you would be in this afternoon , Morris , I will go downtown and pick 'em out . '' Once more Morris wrung his customer 's hand . Before proceeding downtown , he sought the nearest dairy restaurant and made tremendous inroads upon its stock of eggs and coffee . It was almost ten o'clock before he reached his place of business , and as he stepped out of the elevator he was greeted by a roar of voices approximating the effect of a well-managed mob scene in a capital-and-labour drama . Old man Hubai stood in the middle of the showroom ; and with clenched fists waving in the air he appealed to heaven to witness that he was a poor man and spoke nothing but the Hungarian tongue . Hence he was at the mercy of such ruffians as Pilz and Wcelak , whose right name he averred to be Kohn . Following this he swore by his mother that he had paid a thousand kronen for the violin , and _ da capo _ from the exposition of his poverty .