With Saxon troops in the town, and the nobles divided, there is no hope of a successful rising in Warsaw." "The king did not think of that," Charlie said.

"His opinion was, that were it evident that the citizens of Warsaw were strongly opposed to Augustus of Saxony, it would have a great moral effect, and that, perhaps, they might influence some of the nobles who, as you say, are deeply in their books, or upon whose estates they may hold mortgages, to join the party against the king." "They might do something that way," Allan Ramsay agreed.

"Of course, I have no money out on mortgages.

I want badly enough all the money I can lay hands on in my own business.

Giving credit, as we have to, and often very long credit, it requires a large capital to carry on trade.