21/25 "But my money--my money, which you must pay this minute, if I please to demand it." "You did not lend me five-and-twenty thousand pounds without security." "It is forty-five--now, at this moment." "Take it, get it; go and put it in your pocket. You have a lot of writings; turn then into cash at once. Take them to any other Jew in London and sell them. See if you can get your five-and-twenty thousand pounds for them,--or twenty-five thousand shillings. You certainly cannot get five-and-twenty pence for them here, though you had all the police of this royal kingdom to support you. |