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Vanslyperken read it over. It was an acknowledgment for the sum of fifty guineas, but not specifying for what service. He did not much like to sign it, but how could he refuse? Besides, as the Jew said, it was only to prove that the money was paid; nevertheless he objected. "Vy vill you not sign? I must not lose my monish, and I shall lose it if you do not sign.
"Yesh, yesh," said the little man, whose German silver spectacles sat upon a bulbously Oriental nose; "ze monish ish never paid on a crossed shequc. If one hash a bank-account, you know, zat ish different. Ze gentleman who gif you dis shequc had no bishness to crosh it if you have no banker."
You cannot go back, or your life vill be forfeit, I can assure you you vill sign if you please and you vill not leave dis house, until you do sign," continued the Jew. "You vill not take our monish and den give de information, and hang us all. You vill sign, if you please, sare."
Elder remained thoughtful for a few moments; then he replied: "As you wont take it unless I give a lease for twelve months, I will do so on one condition: that on your failure to pay the rent monthly in advance, you forfeit the lease, and I am at liberty to demand your removal without any notice." "Shust as you like," he replied, "for I know te monish vill always pe ready in advance."
You too mush gentleman not to help a poor old man, ven he ish in distress." "Rather say, Mr Emmanuel, that you have heard that I have not ten thousand pounds per annum, and that you are afraid that you have lost your money." "Loshe my monish! no loshe my tousand pound! Did you not say, dat you would pay it back to me, and give me hundred pounds for my trouble; dat vash de last arrangement."
I am a Jew, and I care not whether de Papist or de Protestant have de best of it but I call it all de good cause, because every cause is good which brings de monish." So thought Vanslyperken, who was in heart a Jew. "And now, sare, you vill please to take great care of de packet, and deliver it to our friend at Amsterdam, and you vill of course come to me ven you return here."
"You vash a very odd gentleman, Mishter Newland," said he; "you kick me down stairs, and but dat is noting." "Good-bye, Mr Emmanuel," said I, "and let me eat my dinner." The Jew retired, and I commenced my meal, when the door again slowly opened, and Mr Emmanuel crawled up to me. "Mishter Newland, I vash beg your pardon, but vill you not pay me de interest of de monish?"
"Why don't you enlarge your business?" asked Jonathan, one day. "You can sell five times what you make." "I knows dat," returned the Dutchman, "but I wants de monish. Wait a while, den I enlarsh." "Then you are laying by something?" "Leetle mite." In two or three days, Jonathan came round again.
"You can't put me in prison for an agreement," replied I. "No; but I can prosecute you for a swindler." "No, you confounded old rascal, you cannot; try, and do your worst," cried I, enraged at the word swindler. "Veil, Mr Newland, if you have not de ten tousand a year, you have de house and de monish; you vill not cheat a poor man like me." "I have sold my house."
It's to be all pay, but dey eats up de sour- crout and de fresh pork, and drinks de coffee, and ven I looks for de monish, de gentlemens has disappeared down de rivver. Now you don't looks as much rascal as some of dem does, and as it ish cold to-day, I vill make dish corntract mid you.
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