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Before writing this more literary work set in Italy among the English expatriots, Henry Harland (1861-1905) wrote far more sensational novels set in the immigrant Jewish neighborhoods of New York City under the pen name "Sidney Luska." Born a Protestant in Connecticut, "Luska" claimed to be from St. Petersburg and ironically was called "the first Jewish-American novelist."
Reproduction of the original: The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland
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The scales continued while I was dressing, and many desultory reminiscences of the player, and vague reflections upon the unlikelihood of her adventures, went flitting through my mind to their rhythm. Here she was, scarcely turned thirty, beautiful, brilliant, rich in her own right, as free in all respects to follow her own will as any man could be, with Camille happily at her side, a well grown, rosy, merry miss of twelve,—here was Nina, thus, to-day; and yet, a mere little ten years ago, I remembered her ... ah, in a very different plight indeed. True, she has got no more than her deserts; she has paid for her success, every pennyweight of it, in hard work and self-denial. But one is so expectant, here below, to see Fortune capricious, that, when for once in a way she bestows her favours where they are merited, one can’t help feeling rather dazed. One is so inured to seeing honest Effort turn empty-handed from her door...FROM THE BOOKS.
"My Friend Prospero" from Henry Harland. American novelist and editor (1851-1905).