e tousand pound, without de
interest? you are very welcome to de interest. I only lend it to oblige
you."

"How can you expect a d----d rascal to do any such thing?" replied I.

"D----d rascal! Ah! it vash I who vash a rascal, and vash a fool to say
the word. Mishter Newland, you vash a gentleman, you vill pay me my
monish. You vill pay me part of my monish. I have de agreement in my
pocket, all ready to give up."

"If I have not the money, how can I pay you?"

"Fader Abraham, if you have not de monish--you must have some monish;
den you will pay me a part. How much vill you pay me?"

"Will you take five hundred pounds, and return the agreement?"

"Five hundred pounds--lose half--oh! Mr Newland--it was all lent in
monish, not in goods; you will not make me lose so much as dat?"

"I'm not sure that I will give you five hundred pounds; your bond is not
worth two-pence, and you know it."

"Your honour, Mishter Newland, is worth more dan ten tousand pounds: but
if you have not de monish, den you shall pay me de five hundred pounds
which you offer, and I will give up de paper."

"I never offered five hundred pounds."

"Not offer; but you mention de sum, dat quite enough."

"Well then, for five hundred pounds, you will give up the paper?"

"Yes; I vash content to loshe all de rest, to please you."

I went to my desk, and took out five hundred pounds in notes. "Now,
there is the money, which you may put your hands on when you give up the
agreement." The old man pulled out the agreement and laid it on the
table, catching up the notes. I looked at the paper to see if it was all
right, and then tore it up. Emmanuel put the notes, with a heavy sigh,
into his inside coat pocket, and prepared to depart. "Now, Mr Emmanuel,
I will show that I have a little more honour than you think for. This
is all the money I have in the world," said I, taking out of my desk
the remaining thousand pounds, "and half of it I give to you, to pay you
the whole money which you lent me. Here is five hundred pounds more, and
now we are quits."

The eyes of the old man were fixed upon me in astonishment, and from my
face they glanced upon the notes; he could, to use a common expression,
neither believe his eyes nor his ears. At last he took the money, again
unbuttoned and pulled out his pocket-book, and with a trembling hand
stowed them away as before.

"You vash a very odd gentleman, Mishter Newland," said he; "you kick me
down stairs, an