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As for the moneylender's language, it was with a welcome gleam of humour that Miss Belsize assured me she had "gone too straight to hounds" in her time to be as completely paralysed by it as her mother's neighbours might have been.
"What does the kind gentleman mean, Bunny? Wait! I have it thieves! Common thieves!" And he laughed loud and long in the moneylender's face and mine. "You may laugh," said Levy. "I'm too old a bird for your chaff; the only wonder is I didn't spot you right off when we were abroad." He grinned malevolently. "Shall I tell you when I did tumble to it Mr. Ananias J. Raffles?"
But then, by "economics," of course, I mean not a merchant's profit or a moneylender's interest, but the method by which men earn their bread, which must also mean the kind of life they lead. We generally think of the primitive life of man that of the herdsman or the tent liver as something idyllic. The picture is as far as possible from the truth.
Well, he says his principal has instructed him to call in my bills, and it is impossible for him to renew them; and that the usual steps will be taken if I am not able to meet them." Jasper laughed, with gentle sarcasm. "Of course, that's always the moneylender's excuse. I'm afraid he will sell you up, Beau." Captain Beaumont whistled. "My dear Vermont, it will be an awful shock for the guv'nor.
There was once a farmer who suffered much at the hands of a money-lender. Good harvests, or bad, the farmer was always poor, the moneylender rich. At last, when he hadn't a farthing left, the farmer went to the moneylender's house, and said, 'You can't squeeze water from a stone, and as you have nothing to get by me now, you might tell me the secret of becoming rich.
'And the best thing you can do, he added, 'is to stay here and take them away as far as they come down and put them back into circulation again. Tut! tut! he added, picking up a moneylender's threatening letter to a widow, 'it is astonishing how these people interfere with the most sacred rights! Here is a letter actually stolen from the post! Pray see that it is delivered.
You left that one there, I suppose? What happened next?" There was no longer any masking the moneylender's eagerness to extract the denouement of Raffles's adventure; that it required extracting must have seemed a sufficient earnest of the ultimate misadventure so craftily plotted by Levy himself. His great nose glowed with the imminence of victory.
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