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In the early middle ages the lending of money for interest had been forbidden by the Catholic Church; in this as in other branches of business it was immoral to receive profit without giving work. The Jews, however, with no such scruples, had found money-lending very profitable, even though royal debtors occasionally refused to pay.
Mr. Babington was so shocked that he did not cease to stir himself. Allow a son to disinherit himself, merely because he had fallen into the hands of a money-lending Jew before he had left college! To have the whole condition of a property changed by such a simple accident! It was shocking to him; and he moved himself in the matter with much more energy than old Mr.
This aristocratic money-lending proved a hopeless trade; it only plunged Derues deeper and deeper into the mire of financial disaster. The noblemen either forgot to pay while they were alive, or on their death were found to be insolvent. Derues was driven to ordering goods and merchandise on credit, and selling them at a lower price for ready money.
Man: The particulars. We always call it a story in Fleet Street. Woman: What a good name! Well, did you find out anything interesting? Man: Not very much. I saw his cousin, Duncan Farll, a money-lending lawyer in Clement's Lane he only heard of it because we telephoned to him. But the fellow would scarcely tell me anything at all. Woman: Really! I do hope there's something terrible. Man: Why?
Mr. Willshire, being a consul and great customer of his Imperial Highness, also received a gift of a horse in exchange. The united value of the presents to the Emperor, on this occasion, was fifty thousand dollars, which amply indemnifies him for his money-lending, and the credit that he gives. They consisted principally of articles of European manufactures.
He bought county scrip at a liberal discount and lent his profits to the needy at the highest rate allowed by law. Luke Tweezy's knowledge of what was allowed by territorial law was not limited to money-lending. He had been admitted to the bar, and no case was too small, too large, or too filthy for him to handle. In his dislike of Luke Tweezy Racey Dawson was not solitary.
It isn't my business to interfere with Gabriel Chestermarke or Godwin Markham in his money-lending affairs nor to trace Lord Ellersdeane's missing jewels. My job is to find John Horbury, or to get to know what happened to him." "And all this helps," answered Easleby. "Haven't you got anything?" "Don't know that I have," admitted Starmidge. "Just now, anyway.
But now she wanted to get a definite opinion from him in regard to certain modes of money-making, which had naturally of late occupied a good deal of her thought. "What is your notion concerning money-lending I mean at interest, Mr. Ingram?" she said. "I hear it is objected to nowadays by some that set up for teachers!" "It is by no means the first time in the world's history," answered Andrew.
When I call on her on Wednesdays, you should hear the tone in which she asks me, before everybody, how 'dear Madame Chebe' is. Oh! yes. I'm a Chebe and she's a Fromont. One's as good as the other, in my opinion. My grandfather was a druggist. What was hers? A peasant who got rich by money-lending.
Since they were excluded from the guilds, they not unnaturally turned to the business of money-lending, which no Christian might practice. Undoubtedly their occupation had much to do in causing their unpopularity.
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