And there I saw his gentle partner and his fair children, and on the morrow he showed me the books of which he had spoken years before by the side of the stream.

In the low quiet chamber, whose one window, shaded by a gigantic elm, looks down the slope towards the pleasant stream, he took from the shelf his learned books, Zohar and Mishna, Toldoth Jesu and Abarbenel.
'I am fond of these studies,' said he, 'which, perhaps, is not to be wondered at, seeing that our people have been compared to the Jews.

In one respect I confess we are similar to them: we are fond of getting money.

I do not like this last author, this Abarbenel, the worse for having been a money-changer.

I am a banker myself, as thou knowest.' And would there were many like him, amidst the money-changers of princes! The hall of many an earl lacks the bounty, the palace of many a prelate the piety and learning, which adorn the quiet Quaker's home! It is doubtful if Borrow met Joseph John Gurney more than on the one further occasion to which he refers above.