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The Thirty-nine Steps

CHAPTER ONE
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Capital, he said, had no conscience and no fatherland.

Besides, the Jew was behind it, and the Jew hated Russia worse than hell.
'Do you wonder ?' he cried.

'For three hundred years they have been persecuted, and this is the return match for the pogroms.

The Jew is everywhere, but you have to go far down the backstairs to find him.
Take any big Teutonic business concern.

If you have dealings with it the first man you meet is Prince von und Zu Something, an elegant young man who talks Eton-and-Harrow English.


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