The next to be asked was Diespiter, son of Vica Pota, he also being consul elect, and a moneylender; by this trade he made a living, used to sell rights of citizenship in a small way.

Already the moneylenders sitting on their chests form a veritable nightmare; but with fresh debts by the thousand million sterling being contracted, there is great danger that the mass-peoples beneath will be worse paralysed and broken even than they are nowunless, indeed, with a great effort they rouse themselves and throw off the evil burden.

The next morning Goriot visited a silversmith, and the Countess de Restaud received the money to redeem a note of hand which she had given to a moneylender on behalf of her lover.

Such moneylenders have excited boundless hatred in all that section of Europe, which has had to suffer from their ready financial aid to despotism.

There is none round which it has not cast its feelersno Semitic moneylender ever obtained a surer hold on his victim.

" XII THE COBRA BUNGALOW A STORY OF A MONEYLENDER Beharil Surajmul was the greatest moneylender in Dowlutpoor.

" XII THE COBRA BUNGALOW A STORY OF A MONEYLENDER Beharil Surajmul was the greatest moneylender in Dowlutpoor.

His usual rate of interest being only 5 per cent, per mensem, he cut into the business of other moneylenders, and in four or five years had no serious competitor within a radius of four miles from Kadampur itself.

When the door of Gurneys', the moneylenders, opened to his touch, and drew him abruptly from his speculations, his first emotion was a quick irritation that chance should interfere with his thoughts.

Moreover, their lords and the moneylenders of the towns were generally no longer alive, so that many peasants had become free of debt.

These peasants were thinking of popular risings on the pattern of all the risings in the history of Chinaattacks on the towns and the killing of the hated landowners, officials, and moneylenders, that is to say of the gentry.

Another worthy has a reputation of being a ruthless moneylender whose rumored 'sex scandals' could even put Jalgaon to shame, as the BJP leadership is itself known to have once argued.

I think the South African War was a dirty work which we did under the whips of moneylenders.

It is true that bills of exchange are often drawn by moneylenders abroad on moneylenders in England merely in order to raise credit, that is to say, to borrow money by means of the London discount market.

It is true that bills of exchange are often drawn by moneylenders abroad on moneylenders in England merely in order to raise credit, that is to say, to borrow money by means of the London discount market.

These bonds and stocks and shares are the machinery of international finance, by which moneylenders of one nation provide borrowers in others with the wherewithal to carry out enterprises, or make payments for which they have not cash available at home.

But though there were moneylenders in those days who obliged foreign potentates with loans, the business was in the hands of expert professional specialists, and there was no medieval counterpart of the country doctor whom we have imagined to be developing industry all over the world by placing his savings in foreign countries.

America has also been taking the place of France and England as international moneylenders by financing Argentina; and a great company has been formed in New York to promote international activity, on the part of Americans, in foreign countries.

And so it chooses the primrose path of dalliance with a moneylender.

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

The international moneylender, on the other hand, if his debtor defaults may, if he is lucky, induce his Government to bring diplomatic pressure to bear, for whatever that may be worth.

The world as a whole could not grow in wealth without enriching the people that was the greatest buyer and seller, the greatest moneylender and the greatest carrier.

To all of this Mr. Chesterton replies: "That only concerns the Jews and the moneylenders."

It was also true of the richer traders, merchants and moneylenders, particularly of the third and fourth generations.

She ran into debt, and was swindled by the moneylenders; her steward cheated her, her servants pilfered her; her distress was at last acute.