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                          JUDITH TRACHTENBERG

                                A Novel



                          By KARL EMIL FRANZOS

                     AUTHOR OF "FOR THE RIGHT" ETC.



                             TRANSLATED BY

                      (Mrs.) L. P. and C. T. LEWIS




                                NEW YORK
                   HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
                                  1891






                 Copyright, 1891, by Harper & Brothers.
                               *   *   *
                         _All rights reserved_.






                          JUDITH TRACHTENBERG.




                               CHAPTER I.


About sixty years ago, during the reign of the Emperor Francis the
First, there lived in a small town in Eastern Galicia an excellent man,
who had been greatly favored by fortune. His name was Nathaniel
Trachtenberg; his occupation was that of a chandler. He had inherited
from his father a modest business, which he had increased by his energy
and perseverance, by adding to it the manufacture of wax candles, and
by the admirable quality of his goods. Possibly, also, by the wise
moderation he used in demanding payment, which had secured nearly all
the noble families of the country as his patrons.

His intellectual progress kept pace with his increase of riches. Richly
endowed by nature, he acquired, by his intercourse with those of
superior position and by the numerous journeys he made to the West for
business purposes, a higher degree of culture than was usual with his
co-religionists of that period. He spoke and wrote German fluently; he
read the Vienna papers regularly, and even occasionally a poet, such as
Schiller or Lessing.

