ABSTRACT
When Pesach, the agent, was sent packing by Count Krapowacki he spent a gloomy day worrying about the future. His career as an agent for the nobility had barely begun and he had entrée to only a few houses, and now Count Krapowacki, who had promised to remember the merits of his father, had banished him ignominiously from his presence. All the effort he had invested in gaining access to the Counts home had been in vain and his hopes lost. Badly troubled, Pesach looked in on all the ale-houses and guest houses in the town thinking that he might find some business, but these visits were all in vain, for everywhere he went he found more agents than principals and there was no opportunity for earning a penny. Downcast, he walked round all day, brooding, and he wanted nothing better than to take revenge on David whom he blamed for his banishment from the Count’s presence.
