The Progress of Julius Author:Daphne du Maurier "Something for nothing" was the motto Julius Levy learned from his peasant grandfather. With this axiom as a guiding principle, Julius progressed from a small boy selling rats at two francs each in the beleaguered Paris of the 1870's to the richest man in England during the first World War. A cruel and insensitive man, Julius clawed his way to t... more »he top, caring nothing for the other lives that touched his -- until his beloved daughter Gabriel was born and drew him into a deep attachment from which he was never able to escape.« less