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You shall have the hundred to-morrow when it's due." Ratman glanced up at his host with a leer. "Whose till have you been robbing now?" he said. Captain Oliphant frowned. "You haven't a very genial way about you, Ratman. Try a cigar." "Oh, bless you," said he, "I ask no questions. It's all one to me, so long as it's solid pounds, shillings and pence."
So far does love of gain stimulate the human mind. Quoted from Petrarch's Lettere Senili in Oliphant, Makers of Venice , p. 349; the whole of this charming chapter, 'The Guest of Venice', should be read.
"The whole in five minutes or there'll be interest to add!" retorted Mr Ratman. With a groan Captain Oliphant flung down the second bank-note on the table. "Take it, you coward! and may it help you to perdition!" "Thanks, very much," said Ratman, carefully putting away the money. "I'm not going to ask you where the money came from. That would be painful.
Fothergill, or you will lose the craft you captured," Lieutenant Oliphant said; "they have already cut her free." The Chinese, indeed, who had been beaten below by the boarding party, had soon perceived the sudden departure of their captors, and gaining the deck again had cut the lashings which fastened them to the other junk, and were proceeding to hoist their sails. They were too late, however.
Mr Oliphant was truly sorry for the unfortunate man, and bade him take heart, promising to find him employment if he was willing to stick to his work and be sober.
"Ah, very good Abraham," rejoined the native; "you give me copper, me call you gentleman." "Them you piccaninnies?" asked one of the women, pointing to Hubert and Frank. "No," said Mr Oliphant; "there there are some coppers for you; you must do me some work for them when you come to my sit-down." "Gammon," cried the black addressed; "me plenty lazy."
He is always doing good to somebody, says I, 'and never a word would he say about it, if it did not get found out somehow. Why, he saved Prince Rupert's ship from being blown up by a fire-vessel, and never should we have known of it if young Lord Oliphant had not written to the Captain telling him all about it, and saying that it was the gallantest feat done in the battle.
THE BRIGAND'S BRIDE: A TALE OF SOUTHERN ITALY, By Laurence Oliphant
Mr. Oliphant is what many of us call a mystic, and I found a singular pleasure in listening to him. This dinner at Mr. Lowell's was a very remarkable one for the men it brought together, and I remember it with peculiar interest. My entertainer holds a master-key to London society, and he opened the gate for me into one of its choicest preserves on that evening.
The leaders in this enterprise were the earl of Gowry himself, the earl of Marre, the lords Lindesey and Boyd, the masters of Glamis and Oliphant, the abbots of Dunfermling, Paisley, and Cambuskenneth.