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She laughed , as the old lady 's eyes opened in sacred horror , and as she whispered : `` Child ! '' Within three months of that night , one midnight the people of Prague rose and massacred most of the Jewish residents ; the next day the flame broke out in Buda-Pesth ; and within a week had become a revolution . On the twelfth morning one of two men in a City bank said to the other : `` Come , Frankl , you can not fail a man in this crisis -- I only want 80,000 on all Westring -- '' `` No good to me , my lord , '' answered Frankl , who , though a man of only forty -- short , with broad shoulders , -- already had his skin divided up like a dry leaf ; in spite of which , he was handsome , with a nose ruled straight and long , a black beard on his breast . But the telephone rattled and Frankl heard these words at the receiver : `` Wire to hand from Wertheimer : Austrian Abgeordneten-haus passed a Resolution at noon virtually expelling Jewish Race ... '' When Frankl turned again he had already resolved to possess Westring Vale , and was saying to himself : `` Within six months the value of English land should be -- doubled '' . The bargain was soon made now : and within one week the foresight of Frankl began to be justified . Austria , during those days , was a nation of vengeful hearts : for the Jews had acquired half its land , and had mortgages on the other half : peasant , therefore , and nobleman flamed alike . And this fury was contagious : now Germany -- now France had it -- Anti-Semite laws -- like the old May-Laws -- but harsher still ; and streaming they came , from the Leopoldstadt , from Bukowina , from the Sixteen Provinces , from all Galicia , from the Nicolas Colonies , from Lisbon , with wandering foot and weary breast -- the Heines , Cohens , Oppenheimers -- Sephardim , Aschkenasim .