There are one, two, three, four, five, six thousand florins in notes, twenty florins in silver, and thirty copper pieces"-- and he indicated the money with a wave of his hand.
"What the deuce does this Philistine mean by showing his dirty halfpence to me ?" thought Abellino.
"And now be so good as to sit down and write me a receipt." And he thrust into the young gentleman's hand a form of receipt for six thousand florins, with four florins thirty kreutzers interest, which amount was declared to have been a loan to the undermentioned "Miss Fanny Meyer," but was now discharged in full on the date indicated.
Abellino was immensely surprised.

That these dull Philistines with fat, fleshy cheeks should see through his whole design--for this he was not in the least prepared.

On the other hand, he could not have had a better opportunity for playing the injured gentleman.
With silent, grandseignorial, superciliousness he surveyed the artisan from head to foot, cracking his horse-whip once or twice by way of expressing that language was here superfluous, then he turned to go.
All this time there was deep silence in the room, and the trembling women in the adjoining chamber hung upon this silence with beating hearts, well aware what a storm of passion was brooding within it.
Boltay, perceiving that the dandy was preparing to withdraw, spoke once more in a voice all the more emphatic because of its visibly suppressed emotion.
"Take that money, sir, and subscribe that receipt, for I assure you you will be sorry if you do not." Karpathy turned contemptuously on his heel and, banging the door to behind him, withdrew.

Only when he was already sitting in his carriage did the thought occur to him--"Why did I not box that man's ears ?" And yet, somehow, he could not help feeling very thankful that he had omitted doing so.
Abellino durst not recount this scene to his comrades.

He felt that whatever turn he might give to the affair, the artisan could not fail to appear triumphant.
But the matter did not end here.
Master Boltay did not put back in his pocket the money lying on the table, but swept it up, sent it to the editor of the _Pressburger Zeitung_, and the next day the following notice was to be read in the columns of that respectable newspaper: "A pater-familias residing in this town presents through us six thousand florins thirty kreutzers to the civic hospital, which amount the honourable Abellino Karpathy was pleased to offer as a gift to the daughter of the donor in question, who, however, thought the sum more suitably applied to charitable purposes." The affair made a great stir.