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Updated: September 9, 2025


A droll world, and no wonder the parvenus want to upset it." Randal had hitherto supposed that this notorious tufthunter, this dandy capitalist, this money-lender, whose whole fortune had been wrung from the wants and follies of an aristocracy, was naturally a firm supporter of things as they are how could things be better for men like Baron Levy?

Then Phineas, looking up into his face, knew very well that he had been what the world calls, dining. Phineas remembered at the moment that Barrington Erle had been close to him when the odious money-lender had touched his arm and made his inquiry about that "little bill."

This worthy citizen of Cologne held vasty manuscript letters of the Kaiser addressed to him: 'Dear Well-born son and Subject of mine, Gottlieb! and he was easy with the proudest princes of the Holy German Realm. For Gottlieb was a money-lender and an honest man in one body. He laid out for the plenteous harvests of usury, not pressing the seasons with too much rigour.

"I say, are you trying to kill me?" cried the miserly money-lender of Crumville, as he came closer, and he shook his whip at Dave. "Why, no, Mr. Poole," answered Dave, as calmly as he could. "What makes you think that?" "Oh, you needn't play innocent," snarled Aaron Poole. "You just fired a shot at me! It went through my buggy top."

For the moment the money-lender could find no words. His tongue clove to the roof of his mouth. His last hope the last barrier between him and the man whom he considered his arch enemy, Retief, seemed to have been shattered. He thought not of the horror of the policeman's drowning; he felt no sorrow at the reckless man's ghastly end. He merely thought of himself.

There was a considerable assembly of the greater barons anxious to see the trial of the money-lender, who, though present, was kept apart from Felix lest the two should arrange their defence. The king was sleeping on a couch outside the booth in the shade; he was lying on his back breathing loudly with open mouth.

With calm belief in the Paris of his imagination where Marcas was a politician, Nucingen a banker, Gobseck a money-lender, and Vautrin a candidate for some such place as this Balzac introduces me to a Pole by name Paz, who, loving the wife of his friend, devotes himself to watch over her happiness and her husband's interest. The husband gambles and is profligate.

Previous governments had raised money with comparative ease because they were legitimate. That of William was felt to be precarious. It was feared by the money-lender that a similar convulsion to the one which had borne him so easily to the throne of a great nation might waft him back to the shores of that Holland he so dearly loved.

Why, sir, how do you suppose he has managed to get along on the little that the settlers have paid him, unless it has been in answer to prayer?" "I am sure he must have been pinched," answered the money-lender, moving uneasily. "I would like to relate an instance or two," continued Tom, "if it would not be " "No, no, it won't be disagreeable to me; but I have not time to hear it now.

Levy, of whose treachery towards himself and Nora he was unaware, still held over him the power that the money-lender never loses over the man that has owed, owes, or may owe again.

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