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They seem at least to have had no lack of food and shelter, and if they had to work hard, and were cruelly treated by their taskmasters, we have become familiar in the Indian villages with many instances of cruelty in the treatment of the low caste by the high such as could not well have been surpassed in Egypt itself, to say nothing of the extortions of the money-lender and the ravages of famine and pestilence referred to elsewhere.
True, combined with a small trade in jewelry and precious stones, the former cheap and the latter of an inferior grade to fit the purses of his customers, the man was a money-lender but in an equally small way. Loans of minor amounts, a very few dollars as a maximum, was probably the extent of Sonnino's ventures along this line.
"What about the Jew money-lender, do you ask? "This is the tale." Tale 1. The Khoja and the Nine Hundred and Ninety-nine Pieces of Gold. This Khoja was very poor. One day, wishing for a piece of gold, he corrected himself, saying: "It costs no more to wish for a thousand pieces than for one. I wish for a thousand gold pieces." And he repeated aloud "I wish for a thousand pieces of gold.
There I stayed, with my man, for six mortal hours, M. della Rebbia. I'd have staid three days, if it had been necessary. At the end of six hours a Bastiaccio, a vile money-lender, made his appearance. As he bent down to take up the money, I fired, and I had aimed so well that, as he fell, his head dropped upon the coins he was unearthing.
And the money-lender pointed to the back road, where stood his horse and carriage. "Nice doings, I must say!" "Mr. Poole, I didn't fire at you," answered Dave. "I didn't know anybody was out there on the road, and I didn't fire in that direction." "You fired into the bushes, when you tried the pistol," said Roger, in a low voice.
And Leonora had to fix things up; he would have run from money-lender to money-lender. And that was quite in the early days of her discovery of his infidelities if you like to call them infidelities. And she discovered that one from public sources. God knows what would have happened if she had not discovered it from public sources.
Is that big enough for you, Lablache? Let us have a regulation 'ante. No 'straddling." There was a moment's silence. "Poker" John had proposed the biggest game they had yet played. He would have suggested no limit, but this he knew would be all in favor of Lablache, whose resources were vast. John glanced over from the money-lender to the doctor.
This dirty business was carried out in the name of one Vauvinet, a small money-lender; one of those jobbers who stand forward to screen great banking houses, like the little fish that is said to attend the shark.
The old Jew sank into a chair, still groaning and lamenting, while the money-lender turned to Mr. Mellen. "What will you do now, sir?" he asked. "Nothing." He looked despondent now, though the fierce anger that had blazed in his face at the first sight of the writing lighted it up still. "I am perfectly satisfied," he continued. "I am much obliged to you for your trouble." "I am very sorry," Mr.
We know that any inequality which may exist between town and country in the early days of the Revolution will be transitory and of a nature that will right itself from day to day; for the village will not fail to improve its dwellings as soon as the peasant has ceased to be the beast of burden of the farmer, the merchant, the money-lender, and the State.
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