r goods
and chattels, our jewels, our land, and our castles. We take out our
revenge in insolence, and from time to time in petty persecutions, and
we gradually arrive at the conclusion that the sole means of freeing
ourselves from the yoke of the Jew would be to conquer the vices by
which he lives." Count Abel added that for his part he had no prejudice
against these children of Abraham, and he quoted the words of an
Austrian publicist who said that each country had the kind of Jews it
deserved. "In fact," he continued, "in England, as in France, and in
every country where they are placed on a footing of equality, they
become one of the most wholesome, most vigorous elements of the nation,
while they are the scourge, the leeches, of the countries that persecute
them."

"And, truly, justice demands that it should be so," cried Mlle. Moriaz.

For the first time the count addressed himself directly to her, saying,
with a smile: "How is this, mademoiselle? You are a woman, and you love
justice!"

"This astonishes you, monsieur?" she rejoined. "You do not think justice
one of our virtues?"

"A woman of my acquaintance," he replied, "always maintained that it
would be rendering a very bad service to this poor world of ours to
suppress all injustice, because with the same stroke would also be
suppressed all charity."

"That is not my opinion," said she. "When I give, it seems to me that I
make restitution."

"She is somewhat of a socialist," cried M. Moriaz. "I perceive it
every January in making out her accounts, and it is fortunate that she
intrusts this to me, for she never takes the trouble to look at the
memorandum her banker sends her."

"I am proud for Poland that Mlle. Moriaz has a Polish failing," said
Abel Larinski, gallantly.

"Is it a failing?" queried Antoinette.

"Arithmetic is the most beautiful of the sciences and the mother of
certainty," said M. Moriaz. And turning towards the count, he added:
"She is very wrong-headed, this girl of mine; she holds absolutely
revolutionary principles, dangerous to public order and the preservation
of society. Why, she maintains that people who are in need have a right
to the superfluities of others!"

"This appears to me self-evident," said she.

"And, for example," further continued M. Moriaz, "she has among her
_proteges_ a certain Mlle. Galard--"

"Galet," said Mlle. Moiseney, bridling up, for she had been impatiently
awaiting an opportunity to put in a w