Here are the papers and I should like to finish the matter up at once.' 'Exactly, your Highness, but--' 'But what?
You months ago expressed the warmest satisfaction at the security, though I am quite prepared to admit that the security, is of rather an unusual nature.

You also agreed to the rate of interest.

It is not everyone, Mr Levi, who can lend out a million at 5-1/2 per cent.
And in ten years the whole amount will be paid back.

I--er--I believe I informed you that the fortune of Princess Anna, who is about to accept my hand, will ultimately amount to something like fifty millions of marks, which is over two million pounds in your English money.' Prince Eugen stopped.

He had no fancy for talking in this confidential manner to financiers, but he felt that circumstances demanded it.
'You see, it's like this, your Royal Highness,' began Mr Sampson Levi, in his homely English idiom.