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A moment arrived when he was simultaneously the most eligible and most hated man in two cities.
Es kam so weit, dass er in zwei Städten zugleich der gefragteste und gehassteste Mann war.
Shmuel inhaled the strange odor deep into his lungs and wondered if this was how rooms that had been shut up for many years always smelled, or whether it was the smell of candles that had burned here years earlier on long winter evenings, or a trace of the smell of the ostracized, hated man who had spent the last years of his life here in total solitude.
War es der Geruch der Kerzen, die vor Jahren hier in langen Winternächten angezündet worden waren, oder war es der Körpergeruch jenes ausgestoßenen, gehassten Mannes, der hier in diesem Haus einsam die letzten Jahre seines Lebens verbracht hatte.
First was the beating of a particularly hated man who served as landlord for slum tenements secretly owned by some of the richest and most conservative families in the city.
Zuerst hatte man einen besonders verhaßten Mann erschlagen, der als Vermieter von Wohnungen in den Elendsvierteln fungiert hatte, die einigen der reichsten und konservativsten Familien unserer Stadt gehörten.
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