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In upbraiding the Scribes and Pharisees he evinced no feeling of antagonism; he merely stated the facts. The same firm calm truth of assertion, carried out in action, characterized his expulsion of the money-changers from the temple.
I had visited the money-changers near the Charing Cross station and was prepared. Hephzy's eyes opened. "A franc," she repeated. "That's French money, isn't it. Is he a Frenchman?" "Yes," said I. "This is a French boat, I think." She watched the sailor for a moment. Then she sighed. "And he's a Frenchman," she said. "I thought Frenchmen wore mustaches and goatees and were awful polite.
"Good Sir! dear Archangel!" he asked, "are you quite certain your balances are true?" St. Michael replied, smiling, that they were of a different pattern from the balances the brokers of Paris use and the money-changers of Venice, and were precisely accurate. "What!" sighed Nicolas Nerli, his face as white as chalk.
His addition of one-seventh to the ordinary price of copper, so that his money-changers gave only 180 ounces of that metal, instead of 210, for one-sixth of an ounce of gold, seems rather to have been the result of ignorance than of fraud and avarice; since he did not alter the gold coin, in which alone all public and private payments were made.
"And I shall live once more a bond slave no longer!" It was two weeks after their arrival when Braun felt safe to leave his dangerous charge with the peasant spies whom he had gathered as servants. His money was safe, hidden in the old manor house; and he felt the skies were clear when he entered the money-changers at Breslau, where he cautiously sold some of his smaller bills.
Since the coins minted by feudal lords and kings were hard to pass except in limited districts, and since the danger of counterfeit or light-weight coins was far greater than now, the "money-changers" who would buy and sell the coins of different countries did a thriving business at Antwerp in the early sixteenth century.
The forum or market-place was surrounded by colonnades, in which tradesmen and money-changers' had opened their shops. One side the shortest of it was occupied by the prefecture, in which the Aedile and Quaestor lived. Unnoticed and unrecognised by the people, Julian went into the prefecture. In the hall he saw Christian symbols the cross, the fish, the good shepherd, etc.
The sight of the gold ingots softened them wonderfully, and though it would not have been human nature had they failed to exact an exorbitant rate of exchange for their silver, both sides parted well pleased, the money-changers only grieving that they could not discover whether this transaction was a final one, or merely a prelude to further business of the same sort.
'O Amir, replied the thief, 'I was standing in the money-changers' bazaar at Cairo, when I saw yonder man receive the gold and put it in his purse; so I followed him from street to street, but found no occasion of stealing it from him.
Sunday is no Sabbath for the sons of Israel, so the money-changers are doing a brisk trade from baskets of filthy native bronze coin, the smallest of which go five hundred to the shilling, and the largest three hundred and thirty-three!
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