And after certain of the shopkeepers, having changed fifty thousand dollars at that rate, fled to the Sultan to complain, Israel advised that their debtors should be called together, their debts purchased, and bonds drawn up and certified for ten times the amounts of them.

Thus a few were banished from their homes in fear of imprisonment, many were sorely harassed, and some were entirely ruined.
It was a strange spectacle.

He whom the rabble gibed at in the public streets held the fate of every man of them in his hand.

Their dogs and their asses might bear his name, but their own lives and liberty must answer to it.
Israel looked on at all with an equal mind, neither flinching at his indignities nor glorying in his power.

He beheld the wreck of families without remorse, and heard the wail of women and the cry of children without a qualm.