The spell by which she has turned all things around her into treasure is broken.

The money bags shrink like pricked bladders.

The piles of gold pieces are turned into bundles of rags or faggots of wooden tallies.

[526] The truth which this parable was meant to convey was constantly present to the minds of the rulers of the Bank.

So closely was their interest bound up with the interest of the government that the greater the public danger the more ready were they to come to the rescue.