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Samuel Brohl & Company

CHAPTER IV
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Alas! it was not long before he regretted Egypt and Pharaoh! Why was not this woman Portia?
why was she neither young nor beautiful ?" And he added: "Ah! old fairy, you made him suffer!" It seemed to Count Larinski that this woman, this ugly fairy who had made Samuel Brohl suffer so much, stood there, before him, and that she scanned him from head to foot, as a fairy, whether old or young, might scan a worm.

She had an imperious, contemptuous smile on her lips, the smile of a czarina; so Catharine II smiled, when she was dissatisfied with Potemkin, and said to herself, "I made him what he is, and to-morrow I can ruin him." "Yes, it was she, it was surely she," thought Count Larinski.

"I cannot mistake.

I saw her five weeks ago, in the Vallee du Diable; she made me tremble!" This woman who had taken Samuel Brohl from out of the land of Egypt, and had showered attentions upon him, was a Russian princess.

She owned an estate of Podolia, and chance would have it that one day, in passing, she stopped at the tavern where young Samuel was growing up in the shadow of the tabernacle.


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