to pay, and by so doing you would liquidate the capital." "That is to say, I am to run into debt in order to get rich," said the baron, shrugging his shoulders.
"Excuse me, baron; if a nobleman like you has fifty thousand dollars lying by him, for which he only pays a half per cent., he may buy up half the world.

There are always opportunities of getting estates for a mere nothing, or shares in mines, or something or other, if you only have the money ready.

Or you might establish some kind of works on your property; as, for instance, for making beet-root sugar, like Herr von Bergue; or a brewery, like your neighbor, Count Horn.

There is no possible risk to be feared.

Why, you would receive ten, twenty, ay, fifty per cent.