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But if your influence with Sir Charles we understand each other, do we not? as between gentlemen a little friendly present no money, of course but the equivalent of say 5 per cent in jewellery, on whatever sum above his bid to-day you induce him to offer eh? c'est convenu?" "Ten per cent is more usual," I murmured. He was the Austrian hussar again. "Five, monsieur or nothing!"
Le Compte, all his officers, and not a few of his men, had been prisoners, some time or other, in England, and there was no difficulty in carrying on the negotiations in our mother tongue. "Votre batiment your sheep, shall become French bien entendu" commenced our captor "vid her cargaison rig, and tout cela. Bien; c'est convenu. I shall not exact rigueur in mes conditions.
There are journeys a Frenchman dare not take because, before he reached their end, he would be confronted by one of those bogeys before which the stoutest French heart quails "C'est inadmissible," "C'est convenu," "La patrie en danger."
Our view is that the teaching on usury was simply one of the applications of the doctrine that all voluntary exchanges of property must be regulated by the precepts of commutative justice. In one sense it might be said to be a corollary of the doctrine of just price. This is apparently the suggestion of Dr. Cleary in his excellent book on usury: 'It seems to me that the so-called loan of money is really a sale, and that a loan of meal, wine, oil, gunpowder, and similar commodities that is to say, commodities which are consumed in use is also a sale. If this is so, as I believe it is, then loans of all these consumptible goods should be regulated by the principles which regulate sale contracts. A just price only may be taken, and the return must be truly equivalent. This statement of Dr. Cleary's seems well warranted, and finds support in the analogy which was drawn between the legitimacy of interest in the technical sense and the legitimacy of a vendor's increasing the price of an article by reason of some special inconvenience which he would suffer by parting with it. Both these titles were justified on the same ground, namely, that they were in the nature of compensations, and arose independently of the main contract of loan or sale as the case might be. 'Le vendeur est en présence de l'acheteur. L'objet a pour lui une valeur particulière: c'est un souvenir, par exemple. A-t-il le droit de majorer le prix de vente? de dépasser le juste prix convenu? ... Avec l'unanimité des docteurs on peut trouver légitime la majoration du prix. L'évaluation commune distingue un double élément dans l'objet: sa valeur ordinaire
Alors nous aurions pu, si cela vous eut convenu, offrir a mesdemoiselles vos filles ou du moins a l'une des deux une position qui eut ete dans ses gouts, et qui lui eut donne cette douce independance si difficile a trouver pour une jeune personne.
"C'est convenu. This must have been at sundown; and with the night came a shrewd frost that barkened the blood on my wounds, and stopped all the rivulets that were running from my heart, and about midnight I awoke as from a trance. "And thought you were in heaven?" asked Gerard eagerly, being a youth inoculated with monkish tales.
That will I with singular patience; and presently the labour of eating, also the toil of digestion, and finally, by Hercules his aid, the strain of going to bed, and the struggle of sinking fast asleep. "Why, Denys, what are you doing? ordering supper for only two?" "Why not?" "What, can we sup without waiting for forty more? Burgundy forever!" "Aha! Courage, camarade. Le dia " "C'est convenu."
Which means that history, like literature, is only Le mensonge convenu!" This made Dinky-Dunk sit up and stare at me. "Look here, Gee-Gee, I don't mind a bit of book-learning, but I hate to see you tear the whole tree of knowledge up by the roots and knock me down with it! And it was salons we were talking about, and not the wicked ladies of the past!"
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