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RACHEL.
first rebuff in her artistic career, to feel the first check of disapprobation which, a few years later, secure of her authority, the great tragedian would have treated with indifference, but which now seemed to her of exaggerated importance. The moment to test her true power over that public which, her detractors declared, had only been brought to her feet by a clique of critics and the partiality of her co-religionists the Jews, had come at last.
