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And let not the debtors of God be too confident about the delay of His judgment; though the fatal term be apparently postponed, it is gradually approaching; and the debt to be paid is augmented by the interest which is added to it down to the last day of Heaven's great reckoning."
Boulogne! hah! so we are all got together debtors and sinners before heaven; a jolly set of us but I can't stay and quaff it off with you I'm pursued myself like a hundred devils, and shall be overtaken, before I can well change horses: for heaven's sake, make haste 'Tis for high-treason, quoth a very little man, whispering as low as he could to a very tall man, that stood next him Or else for murder; quoth the tall man Well thrown, Size-ace! quoth I. No; quoth a third, the gentleman has been committing
Marling heard us, and soberly taking up a spade and other implements led us out to his garden and dug us a mess of potatoes while we waited. In the meantime good Mrs. Flowerdew had not been idle, and we formed the idea that her neighbours must have been her debtors for unnumbered little kindnesses, so eager did they now appear to do her a good turn.
"Monsieur," added the young man as he extended his hand to me, "Estelle and I will remain eternally your debtors." I struck at the hand which he had so impudently held out to me and turned to Estelle with my usual dignified calm, but with wrath expressed in every line of my face. "Estelle," I said, "what is the meaning of this?"
White with rage, Knight bundled his belongings together, called a hackney coach, and within the hour had shaken the dust of Cock Lane from his feet, finding new lodgings in Clerkenwell and at once haling his whilom landlord to the debtors' court. A little time, and all else was forgotten in the serious illness of his beloved Fanny.
It contained, besides the council and court rooms, a fire engine room, a jail for the detention and punishment of criminals, and a debtors' prison, which was located in the attic, a cage, and a pillory. A pair of stocks were set up on the opposite side of the street, wherein criminals were exposed to the indignant gaze of a virtuous public.
Excitement at her strange, unaccustomed surroundings had put the child's mind in a very whirl, and she had astonished her mother with a very new and disturbing version of the Lord's Prayer, ending: "God give us our debts and help us to forget our debtors and theirs shall be the glory, Amen."
Of light-hearted debtors, the proportion is considerable. Thus Theophilus Cibber, when drowned in debt, begged the loan of a guinea, and spent it on a dish of ortolans. Thus Foote when his mother wrote to him "Dear Sam, I am in prison for debt come and help your loving mother," replied, "Dear Mother, so am I, which prevents his duty being paid to his loving mother by her affectionate son."
There was nothing to hinder the rebels, after they had gained their main objects, the capture of hostages and the release of the debtors, from turning west from Great Barrington, and placing themselves in an hour's march across the town of Egremont, beyond the reach of the militia, in neutral territory.
Whereupon Jesus relates the story of the two debtors, and, with irresistible strength of illustration and delicacy of application, breaks the prejudice and wins the composure of the Jew. "If, then," he continues, "he loves much to whom much is forgiven, what shall we say of one who loves so much?" "See," he goes on, pointing to the woman, "See this woman, this wretch.
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