If you would be able to say that you have in your service Sir Gervas Jerome, knight banneret, and sole owner of Beacham Ford Park, with a rent-roll of four thousand good pounds a year, he is now up for sale, and will be knocked down to the bidder who pleases him best.

Say but the word, and we'll have another flagon of sack to clinch the bargain.' 'But,' said I, 'if you are indeed owner of this fair property, why should you descend to so menial an occupation ?' 'The Jews, the Jews, oh most astute and yet most slow-witted master! The ten tribes have been upon me, and I have been harried and wasted, bound, ravished, and despoiled.

Never was Agag, king of Amalek, more completely in the hands of the chosen, and the sole difference is that they have hewed into pieces mine estate instead of myself.' 'Have you lost all, then ?' Reuben asked, open-eyed.
'Why no--not all--by no means all!' he answered, with a merry laugh; 'I have a gold Jacobus and a guinea or two in my purse.

'Twill serve for a flask or so yet.

There is my silver-hilted rapier, my rings, my gold snuff-box, and my watch by Tompion at the sign of the Three Crowns.
It was never bought under a hundred, I'll warrant.