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The Scapegoat

CHAPTER I
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Meantime, his dispute with his cousins was set at rest for ever by the Governor of the town, who, concluding that his father had left neither will nor heirs, confiscated everything he had possessed to the public treasury--that is to say, to the Kaid's own uses.
Thus he found himself without standing ground in Morocco, whether as a Jew, a Moor, or an Englishman, a stranger in his father's country, and openly branded as a cheat.

That he did not return to England promptly was because he was already a man of indomitable spirit.

Besides that, the treatment he was having now was but of a piece with what he had received at all times.

Nothing had availed to crush him, even as nothing ever does avail to crush a man of character.

But the obstacles and torments which make no impression on the mind of a strong man often make a very sensible impression on his heart; the mind triumphs, it is the heart that suffers; the mind strengthens and expands after every besetting plague of life, but the heart withers and wears away.
So far from flying from Morocco when things conspired together to beat him down, Israel looked about with an equal mind for the means of settling there.
His opportunity came early.


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