` But , credit me , my Prince saw peace or war decided not once , but many times , by the fall of a coin spun between a Jew from Bury and a Jewess from Alexandria , in his father 's house , when the Great Candle was lit . Such power had we Jews among the Gentiles . Ah , my little Prince ! Do you wonder that he learned quickly ? Why not ? ' He muttered to himself and went on : -- ` My trade was that of a physician . When I had learned it in Spain I went to the East to find my Kingdom . Why not ? A Jew is as free as a sparrow -- or a dog . He goes where he is hunted . In the East I found libraries where men dared to think -- schools of medicine where they dared to learn . I was diligent in my business . Therefore I stood before Kings . I have been a brother to Princes and a companion to beggars , and I have walked between the living and the dead . There was no profit in it . I did not find my Kingdom . So , in the tenth year of my travels , when I had reached the Uttermost Eastern Sea , I returned to my father 's house . God had wonderfully preserved my people . None had been slain , none even wounded , and only a few scourged . I became once more a son in my father 's house .
Again the Great Candle was lit ; again the meanly apparelled ones tapped on our door after dusk ; and again I heard them weigh out peace and XXXXX , as they weighed out the gold on the table .
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