17/22 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. How can they know, as we do, how wool and grain sell on estates? 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. |