manasis

Updated: June 2, 2025

He had begun life quite low down in the Parisian world on the quays as apprentice to Manasis, a jew book-dealer, who has been dead twenty-five years, whose money has been dispersed, whose name has been forgotten, of whom nothing remains on earth but the few hours a day of time filched from him by Pugin. Pugin had a hard and bitter fight for twenty years before he obtained recognition.

H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole - The Pools of Silence