He is a man well known to me; he has owed me a hundred ducats these three years past.

I ran after him, as though to claim the debt of him, and so entered the city with them." "You entered the city, and wanted him to settle the debt!" said Bulba; "and he did not order you to be hung like a dog on the spot ?" "By heavens, he did want to hang me," replied the Jew; "his servants had already seized me and thrown a rope about my neck.

But I besought the noble lord, and said that I would wait for the money as long as his lordship liked, and promised to lend him more if he would only help me to collect my debts from the other nobles; for I can tell my lord that the noble cornet had not a ducat in his pocket, although he has farms and estates and four castles and steppe-land that extends clear to Schklof; but he has not a penny, any more than a Cossack.

If the Breslau Jews had not equipped him, he would never have gone on this campaign.
That was the reason he did not go to the Diet." "What did you do in the city?
Did you see any of our people ?" "Certainly, there are many of them there: Itzok, Rachum, Samuel, Khaivalkh, Evrei the pawnbroker--" "May they die, the dogs!" shouted Taras in a rage.

"Why do you name your Jewish tribe to me?
I ask you about our Zaporozhtzi." "I saw none of our Zaporozhtzi; I saw only Lord Andrii." "You saw Andrii!" shouted Bulba.