“I have always heard that he is an exceedingly unpleasant man,” Lord Victor said, “and, unless I am mistaken, I believe he is mean to the point of madness.”
He was searching his mind as he spoke to remember what he had heard or read about Czar Alexander III.
The Marquis nodded.
“You are right about that,” he said. “I am told that he wears his clothes until they are threadbare and his shoes until they fall off his feet!”
Lord Victor laughed and the Marquis went on,
“But his cruelty to the Jews has been unprecedented in the whole of history! He has killed thousands and it was estimated recently that two hundred and thirty-five thousand Jewish families had been forced out of Russia into Western Europe.”
“Then the Czar certainly deserves any bad luck that is coming his way,” Lord Victor
