Mose Mendelssohn, a grandfather of the prominent composer Mendelssohn, was not handsome. He had a small frame, was gibbous.
One day, Mendelssohn visited a certain merchant in Hamburg and learned his beautiful daughter named Promche.
He fell in hopeless love with at first sight.
But she turned her eyes away from him due to his ugly-looking appearance.
He entered into the Promche’s room with encourage before he returned to the house.
He believed that it was the last time to talk with her.
She had a heavenly beauty, but he felt a deep sorrow due to her indifference.
He tried to talk with her, but even she didn’t listen to him and answer.
Finally, he asked shyly.
“Do you believe that God determine your spouse?”
Promche answered by turning her head to the window coldly.
“Yes, then do you also believe that?”
“Yes, on the moment a man is born in the world, God decide his spouse for him.
Even when I was born, my future bride was decided by God. But God added. Your wife will be gibbous. I shouted to him. No, God, please. It’s tragedy having a woman be gibbous. Please let me be gibbous and give her a beauty. That’s why I was born as a hunchback.”
The moment she heard it, she turned her head and stared at him.
She seemed to come across a faint memory though his pure look.
She came to him and grasped his hand.
She became the devoted wife for him later.