lehrgeld

Updated: May 31, 2025

Petersburg, and afterwards tried over again by another court of justices. Now I have paid my Lehrgeld, and go no more to law." "Then you must expose yourself to all kinds of extortion?" "Not so much as you might imagine. I have my own way of dispensing justice. When I catch a peasant's horse or cow in our fields, I lock it up and make the owner pay a ransom."

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia

They indulge, therefore, at first in endless invectives against the prevailing dishonesty; but gradually, when they have paid what Germans call Lehrgeld, they accommodate themselves to circumstances, take large profits to counterbalance bad debts, and generally succeed if they have sufficient energy, mother-wit, and capital in making a very handsome income.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia