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From this false idea of monopoly has come the Greek name of usury, tokos, as much as to say the child or the increase of capital, which caused Aristotle to perpetrate this witticism: COINS BEGET NO CHILDREN. But the metaphor of the usurers has prevailed over the joke of the Stagyrite; usury, like rent, of which it is an imitation, has been declared a perpetual right; and only very lately, by a half-return to the principle, has it reproduced the idea of REDEMPTION.
He seemed unconscious of her presence or of ours. "You were saying, dear " she said, and there halted. He looked up with an undecided half-return to his former brightness. "I was saying " he began, and then stopped, as if searching in his own mind for the clew to what had passed a moment earlier. "You were thanking Captain Fyffe and Mr. Brunow."
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