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And the larger his audience grew, the fiercer grew his resentment against this complacent Christendom which took so much from the Jew and gave so little. 'Shylocks! he would mutter between his clenched teeth as he played 'Shylocks all! With no less punctuality did Rozenoffski pace the silent deck each night in the hope of again meeting the red-haired Jewess.
Reams of gilt-edged paper were squandered upon him; and by the time his case had been duly stated, restated, considered, reconsidered and finally decided, the poor fellow had perhaps voyaged round the world or by some mischance gone to the next. In the matter of exacting their pound of flesh the Lords Commissioners were veritable Shylocks.
Betty stared in amazement; so did the Shylocks who crowded the stairs and windowledges. There was no mistaking the fact that this time the great Mr. Masters was genuinely pleased.
The charitable are often no better than Shylocks, they want their money's worth. I only see her, of course, through your description, but if I see her truly she was one of those who loved life, and life took everything from her!" "Do you remember the story of the other blind woman?" "Yes and no, vaguely. She was a singer, wasn't she?" Doris nodded.
"But surely you remember that lost tribesman at the next table, with the nose like the village pump, and the wife with the emerald necklace?" "I should think I did," said I; "you mean the great Dan Levy, otherwise Mr. Shylock? Why, you told me all about him, A. J." "Did I? Then you may possibly recollect that the Shylocks were off to Carlsbad the very next day.
The remark was typical of the sectional and class hatreds and misunderstandings which this debate aroused, and of the maze of ignorance in which both sides were groping. To the silver faction, their opponents were "mendacious hirelings" and "Gilded Shylocks." God, in His infinite wisdom had imbedded silver in the western mountains for a beneficent purpose.
"He thinks you're a set of filthy Shylocks," said McTurk. "It's just as well for you he don't think you're burglars. You know he never gets a notion out of his conscientious old head." "Well-meanin' man. Did it all for the best." Stalky curled gracefully round the stair-rail. "Head in a drain-pipe. Full confession in the left boot. Bad for the honor of the house very." "Shut up," said Harrison.
As D. Wyatt Aiken, deputy for the Grange in the Southern States and later member of the executive committee of the National Grange, shrewdly commented, "Everybody wanted to join the Grange then; lawyers, to get clients; doctors, to get customers; Shylocks, to get their pound of flesh; and sharpers, to catch the babes in the woods."
Yet in this present year of grace, 1859, half a million of men and women two-thirds of the population of New York are compelled, by reason of their own poverty and the avarice of certain capitalists, to live in what are technically known as "tenement-houses," or, more pertinently, "barracks," hulks of brick, put up by Shylocks anxious for twenty per cent., and lived in God knows how by from four to ninety-four families each.
If for any reason payment cannot be made at the time fixed, then the better way is to go, as soon as this is learned, to the bank or other holder of the note, and frankly explain the situation. Bankers are not shylocks.
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