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Debit and Credit

CHAPTER XII
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He does not know that I have been authorized by the count's attorney to sell this mortgage.

I shall go to him, as if on business of my own, and take some opportunity of praising the property." "But if he knows it himself, of what use is that ?" said Ehrenthal, shaking his head.
"There will still be some use; for, after all, those lawyers must trust to us traders for details.

How can they know, as we do, how wool and grain sell on estates?
At all events, we must do what we can." Ehrenthal sighed, "You can believe, Loewenberg, that it makes me anxious." "Come, come," said the other, "it will be a profitable concern.

The buyer you have in view pays ninety per cent., and seventy is sent to the count in Paris; of the twenty per cent.

remaining, you pay the count's attorney five, and me five for my trouble, and you keep ten.


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