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If I were in your shoes I would certainly call in my loan." Thereon he took leave. Shám Babu passed a restless night, dreaming of the debtor's jail and a starving family. On Hari Babu's return, next morning, he related the purport of his conversation with Rámanáth. His host said: "You should not attach too much importance to such tittle-tattle.
I know from Washington Morton that Burr borrowed six hundred dollars of you through him." "I lent him the six hundred, partly because his desperate plight appeals to me I believe him to be the unhappiest wretch in America and more because I don't want Europe laughing at the spectacle of a Vice-President of the United States in Debtor's prison.
Pisgah on the road to glory, Mr. Simp on the smooth sea, Mr. Freckle in the debtor's jail, Mr. Risque behind his four-in-hand, and Mr. Lees in the charity grave, let us sit with the two remaining colonists in the cabriolet at Bellinzona; for it is the month of April, and they are to cross the great St. Gothard en route for Paris.
"I told you before," he said, "that it was not the amount of money, but the principle, that I care for. You cannot have forgotten this." "I don't see how any principle is involved, Squire Hudson." "You look at the matter solely from a debtor's point of view. If you held the mortgage, instead of myself, you would change your view very quickly." "I don't think I should," said the farmer, slowly.
His master had sent him to Montargis on different affairs, and he intended to return in the diligence the same evening, after having received the amount of a bill at a neighboring town; but they kept him at the debtor's house, and when he was able to set out the day had already closed. Fearing not to be able to reach Montargis in good time, he took a crossroad they pointed out to him.
But there was a man who had not forgotten him, and who followed all his movements with vigilant eyes. Sandford was convinced that Fletcher had in some way become prosperous, and he now advanced to use the peculiar note as a draft on the miserable debtor's funds.
"And a creditor for you, Sir Rowland," came the voice of Mr. Trenchard, who now pushed forward through those same shrubs that had masked his friend's approach. "A Mr. Swiney. 'Twas I sent him from town. He's lodged at the Bull, and bellows like one when he speaks of what you owe him. There are three messengers with him, and they tell of a debtor's gaol for you, sweetheart."
Surely the brain of a Dumas could not have conceived a more romantic event than this sudden transformation of one who was a fugitive from debtor's prison into the favorite of a young and enthusiastic king. At last Wagner had an opportunity to bring forward his music-dramas. "Tristan and Isolde" was sung at the Munich Opera on June 10, 1865, with an excellent cast, and Hans von Bülow as conductor.
A few minutes later, the key of the old stone debtor's jail was turned upon me. I had a little money, and reluctant to be shut up with the company I found in the building, I succeeded in procuring a small, ill-furnished room, to myself. These preliminaries were hardly settled, when Neb was admitted with the bag.
The next day the debtor's wife came to the Marshalsea, bringing with her a little boy of three, and a little girl of two. "Two children," the turnkey observed to himself. "And you another, which makes three; and your wife another, which makes four." Six months later a little girl was born to the debtor, and when this child was eight years old, her mother, who had long been languishing, died.
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