17 Read this passage from "The First Seven Years." What is the chronological order of the events?
After the incident with the broken last, angered by Sobel's behavior, the shoemaker decided to let him stew for a week in the rooming house, although his own strength was taxed dangerously and the business suffered. However,
after several sharp nagging warnings from both his wife and daughter, he went finally in search of Sobel, as he had once before, quite recently, when over some fancied slight-Feld had merely asked him not to give Miriam so many
books to read because her eyes were strained and red-the assistant had left the place in a huff, an incident which, as usual, came to nothing, for he had returned after the shoemaker had talked to him, and taken his seat at the
bench. But this time, after Feld had plodded through the snow to Sobel's house-he had thought of sending Miriam but the idea became repugnant to him-the burly landlady at the door informed him in a nasal voice that Sobel was
not at home, and though Feld knew this was a nasty lie, for where had the refugee to go? still for some reason he was not completely sure of-it may have been the cold and his fatigue-he decided not to insist on seeing him.
Instead he went home and hired a new helper.
Sobel breaks the last, Feld asks Sobel not to give Miriam so many books, Sobel returns to work, Sobel's landlady tells Feld that Sobel is not home
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Feld asks Sobel not to give Miriam so many books, Sobel returns to work, Sobel breaks the last, Sobel's landlady tells Feld that Sobel is not home
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Feld asks Sobel not to give Miriam so many books, Sobel breaks the last, Sobel's landlady tells Feld that Sobel is not home, Sobel returns to work
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Sobel breaks the last, Sobel's landlady tells Feld that Sobel is not home, Feld asks Sobel not to give Miriam so many books, Sobel returns to work