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Samuel Brohl & Company

CHAPTER XI
12/47

You would not be a woman if you could not find ten for one." Mlle.

Moriaz could no longer refrain her anger.

"Madame," she exclaimed excitedly, "will you declare to M.Larinski, in my presence, that his name is Samuel Brohl ?" "I made that declaration to him yesterday--it is useless to repeat it.
He was nearer dead than alive, and I was truly sorry for the state into which I had thrown him.

I cannot disguise from myself that I am the cause of all this; why did I take the boy from his father's tavern and his natal mud?
Perhaps there he would have remained honest.

It was I who launched him into the world and gave him the desire to advance, I put the trump-cards into his hand, but he found that he could not win fast enough by fair play, so he ended by cheating.


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