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And Ganesh woke, for the money-lender heard the dry rustle of his trunk uncoiling, and he answered, "Father, one half of the money has been paid, and the debtor for the other half I hold here fast by the heel." The child bubbled with laughter. 'And the moneylender paid the mendicant? it said. 'Surely, for he whom the Gods hold by the heel must pay to the uttermost.
The cloudy agate eyes dwelt kindly on the face of Terry, and mysteriously as well. "That ain't nothing. Nothing between friends. You don't know the style of a man I am, Terry. Your word is as good as your money with me!" "I've no security " "Don't talk security. Think I'm a moneylender? This is a game. Come on!" Five minutes later Terry was three hundred behind.
Montague Fitzgerald on the head when that shining moneylender was trying to force from her the key of his chambers; and she wondered what had been happening to the Esmeralda to annoy him. She was too loyal to suppose that anything that the Esmeralda had herself done could be annoying him. He ate his breakfast more slowly than usual, and with a brooding air.
It is thus that German cities have established their public pawnshops, and have saved the poor man from the clutches of the moneylender. It is thus that they have initiated gratuitous legal advice for the indigent. They have even established municipal beerhouses and Rathhauskeller. In one word, they have launched out in a hundred forms of civic enterprise.
The world as a whole could not grow in wealth without enriching the people that was the greatest buyer and seller, the greatest moneylender and the greatest carrier. It was all quite sound, apart from the danger depicted by Dr. Bowley, as long as we had peace, or as long as the wars that happened were sufficiently restricted in their area and effect.
Nor do Indian politicians say much about the native moneylender, who is far more responsible than the tax-gatherer for the poverty of the peasant.
But the thing I am going to talk about was a certain wood of which he was rightly very proud. It stood on the slope of a grass down, just above the valley, and beneath it was a clean white road, and a little way along that a town, part of which belonged to Mr. Hermann-Postlethwaite, part to a local solicitor and moneylender, several bits to a brewer in Reading, and a few houses to the inhabitants.
All the leading characters of much more modern times were there already; Fitzdottrell, ready to sell his estates in order to become His Grace the Duke of Drown'dland, Gilthead, the London moneylender who 'lives by finding fools, and My Lady Tailbush, who pulls the social wires at court.
Then, suddenly, I perceived that his forehead was glistening white and wet in the lamplight. "What is it, Raffles? What's the matter?" He reversed his paper with a shaky hand, and thrust it upon me without a word, merely pointing out four or five ill-printed lines of latest news. This was the item that danced before my eyes: TRAGIC DEATH OF FAMOUS MONEYLENDER Mr.
Why, everybody knows how bad she is! Jesus did not need to be told what Simon was thinking. Still sitting there, while the woman clung to his feet, Jesus spoke. "Simon, I have something to say to you." "Yes, Rabbi?" Simon replied. "What is it?" "Let me tell you a story," Jesus said. "There was once a moneylender who had two men owing him money.
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