A herd of elephants will I feed with my substance, but never more a factory.

How then can you say that I have deceived you ?" continued he, in increasing dudgeon.
"You have known the state of matters," cried the baron, "and have disguised the count's position from me." "Was it I who sold you the mortgage ?" inquired the offended Ehrenthal.
"I have paid you the interest half-yearly--that is my offense; I have paid you much money besides--that is my deceit." He then continued more conciliatingly: "Look at the matter calmly, baron: another creditor has offered to purchase the estate; the lawyers have not apprised us of it, or they have sent the advertisement to a wrong address.

What of that?
You will now be paid your capital, and then you can pay off the mortgages on your own land.

I hear that this estate in Poland is a very valuable one, so you have nothing to fear for your capital." The baron had only to depart with this uncertain hope.

As he dejectedly entered his carriage, he called out to the coachman, "To the Councilor Horn;" but on the way thither he gave counter orders, and returned to his lodgings.