'I'm grieved,' said Paul, 'to seem unkind: The money shalt of course be lent: But, for a week or two, I find It will not be convenient.'
However legal it may be To pay what never has been lent, This style of business seems to me Extremely inconvenient!
In ways truly miraculous, I had been
lent four books, marvellous books, and them I had devoured.
At this instant there came into court two old men, one carrying a cane by way of a walking-stick, and the one who had no stick said, "Senor, some time ago I lent this good man ten gold-crowns in gold to gratify him and do him a service, on the condition that he was to return them to me whenever I should ask for them.
To which the old man replied, "I admit, senor, that he lent them to me; but let your worship lower your staff, and as he leaves it to my oath, I'll swear that I gave them back, and paid him really and truly."
He
lent us the money to become our creditor; and he lends us the yacht to give another handle to the people who are saying already that he occupies the position in our family which is more fully recognized on the other side of the Channel!"
From his infancy he had, with calculation beyond his age, lent his name and complaisance to the follies of the Comte de Guiche.
De Manicamp cost -- money lent, never returned -- from twelve to fifteen hundred livres per annum.
So we talked about painting, poetry, and music, theology, geology, and philosophy: once or twice I
lent her a book, and once she
lent me one in return: I met her in her walks as often as I could; I came to her house as often as I dared.
It led to my remarking, with more zeal than discretion, that it came with a bad grace from him, to whom Startop had
lent money in my presence but a week or so before.
The odd superstitions touched upon were all preva-
lent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story -- that is to say, thirty or forty years ago.
A TRULY Pious Person who conducted a savings bank and
lent money to his sisters and his cousins and his aunts of both sexes, was approached by a Tatterdemalion, who applied for a loan of one hundred thousand dollars.