His name I considered sufficient security for ten times the amount he wished to borrow.

At all events, although it pained me to disobey my uncle's positive injunctions, I could not deny the assistance which was asked of me.

I lent the ten thousand crowns, and obtained a receipt with a written promise of payment in one month.
Yesterday the note fell due; my debtor asks a delay until to-morrow.

I met him an hour ago, and he has not yet obtained the money." "But if your debtor is rich and powerful, you need not indulge your fears to-day; to-morrow, perhaps, he will fulfil his promise," remarked the young girl, with ill-concealed anxiety.
"My fears may mislead me, Mary, but I am sure that my debtor's affairs are in a very bad condition.

At his urgent entreaty I made no entry of the loan upon the books, in order to conceal the transaction from the clerks; but still I have not the amount in hand.