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Updated: May 20, 2025
Finally, a whimsical chance, in which Sterne would have seen predestination, had named the man Gobseck. When I did business for him later, I came to know that he was about seventy-six years old at the time when we became acquainted. He was born about 1740, in some outlying suburb of Antwerp, of a Dutch father and a Jewish mother, and his name was Jean-Esther Van Gobseck.
"'Would you mind telling me, if there is no harm in asking, what was the good of my birth certificate in this business? I asked, when the little old man and I stood on the doorstep. "Jean-Esther Van Gobseck shrugged his shoulders, smiled maliciously, and said, 'What blockheads youngsters are! After that age there is no counting on a man. "And with that he shut the door.
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