5/41 You lent Mr.Emblem fifty pounds. Will you take your fifty pounds, and leave us in peace ?" He drew a bag out of his pocket--a brown banker's bag--and Mr.Chalker distinctly heard the rustling of notes. It awakens all the most pleasurable emotions; it provokes desire and hankering after possession; and it fills the soul with the imaginary enjoyment of wealth. "If that is all you have to say, you may go away again." "But the rest is usury. Think! To give fifty, and ask three hundred and fifty, is the part of an usurer." "Call it what you please. |