When success came, it was easy to win them over, and by admitting them to a share in our profits get them to fling their caps in the air and huzza for their benefactors.

But the Jews were a tougher stock.

Mark you, father, when God blinded their eyes to the coming of the Lord Christ, He opened them very wide to all lower matters.

Their imagination is quick to kindle, and they are as bold in merchantcraft as Charlemagne in war.

They saw what I was after before I had been a month at it, and were quick to profit by my foresight.