He wanted to buy me off." "Buy you off!" "Yes; to bribe me to give you up.

Aunt Sophie does not relish the idea of having a Jew for her nephew." "Aunt Sophie!--but I will never call her Aunt Sophie again.

Do you mean that they offered you money ?" "They offered me property, my dear, which is the same.

But they did it economically, for they only offered me my own.

They were kind enough to suggest that if I would merely break my word to you, they would tell me how I could get the title-deeds of the houses, and thus have the power of turning your father out into the street." "You have the power.