It was my grief that I was so poor a borrower of the night that I blinked stupidly on my papers if I sat beyond the usual hour.

This, and abundance of similar sage saws assuming to inculcate content, we verily believe to have been the invention of some cunning borrower, who had designs upon the purse of his wealthier neighbour, which he could only hope to carry by force of these verbal jugglings.

" "A sufficient pledge gives me power to see the way clearly, though the borrower should be as much hidden as those up above.

" "This assurance is not wanting, since thou art the borrower, thyself, to lend to me.

Then since, as he says, The Borrower is a slave to the Lender, and the Debtor to the Creditor; disdain the chain!

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

I could not go frequently, because in those days, Jack, I was a heavy borrower of money in the expansion of my business, and only one who has built up a great business can understand how, in the earlier and more uncertain period of our banking credits, the absence of personal attention in any sudden crisis might throw you on the rocks.

Thomas Bird found comfort in the assurance that Mrs. Warbeck had kept her secret as the borrower kept his.

This bald pedantry of "tha qua, qua tha," was secretly borrowed from the grammatical speculations of William S. Cardell: the "which-that" notion contradicts it, and is partly of the borrower's own invention.

We need not repeat that the younger was a gifted borrower.

But when it is only a question, not of fraud on a great scale but of a certain amount of underhand business, such as is quite usual in some latitudes, and a certain amount of doubt as to the use that is likely to be made by the borrower of the money placed at its disposal, it is not so easy to feel sure about the duty of an issuing house in handling foreign loans.

In the first place the terms offered are so onerous to the borrower that it may safely be said that no respectable issuing house in London would look at them.

In ordinary life, and in the relations between moneylender and borrower at home, no such question could be asked.

First, because if the borrower does not see fit to pay interest on the loan or repay it when it falls due, there is no process of law by which the lender can recover.

There is yet another reason why the attitude of an issuing house, to a borrowing State, should be paternal or even grand-motherly, as compared with the purely business-like attitude of a banker to a local borrower.

On the other hand, the temptation to undertake bad business on behalf of an importunate borrower is great.

CHAPTER V THE BORROWER AND THE GAMBLER 'Where do he get the money from, you?'

She had exhausted her possibilities as a borrower.

Had the young man had been forced to appeal to the society organized in every city for aiding the deserving poor, by being sent disappointed from my door, the ordeal would have so hurt his pride, that he might not have become the professional borrower he undoubtedly is.

# It may, perhaps, be agreed that the ideal standard of deferred payments is one that would insure justice between borrower and lender.

That of the lender, who may be rich, or that of the borrower, who may be poor?

But what kind of labor is to be taken, that of the lender or that of the borrower or that of some one else?

Mr. Whedell was too great an adept in the art of borrowing, to waste words of tedious explanation and gratitude, which only produce an impression that the borrower does not mean to pay.

He was reduced to his last dollar, but felt opulent in the possession of his diamond breastpinthat tower of moral strength to the borrower.

A mighty borrower of trouble, this gayly dressed harlequin of the woods, and yet the forest would not seem complete without his gay blue vestments.