. Little journeys to the homes of the great . to loan now,but the funds you deposited with me are safe. The bestI can do is to give you Exchange on London, with suchlittle ready money as you now require. I have beenexpecting you, so here is the schedule. The principal,with interest at five per cent, makes me your debtorfor a little over two million thalers. My son Nathan,in London, has the money subject to your ;I William stared, started, clutched the bars acrossthe little window for support, and burst into was taken to the residence part of the house, andLetizia served him w
. Little journeys to the homes of the great . to loan now,but the funds you deposited with me are safe. The bestI can do is to give you Exchange on London, with suchlittle ready money as you now require. I have beenexpecting you, so here is the schedule. The principal,with interest at five per cent, makes me your debtorfor a little over two million thalers. My son Nathan,in London, has the money subject to your ;I William stared, started, clutched the bars acrossthe little window for support, and burst into was taken to the residence part of the house, andLetizia served him with tea and things Kosher. Williambecame calm, and then declared: The principal,Mayer, I shall never touch. I should not know whatto do with it, anyway. Pay me two per cent intereston it, and it is all I shall ever ask. And it was all doneas William desired. To his credit let it be said that hespent the money wisely and well: he did much for thedevelopment of the economic and intellectual improve-ment of the country. 159 MAYER A. ROTHSCHILD. AYER ANSELM died in Eighteen HundredTwelve, aged sixty-nine. But long before hepassed out, he had fixed in the minds of hischildren the wisdom of being loyal to thefamily interests. One banking-house may fail, butfive standing true to each other, in different countries,never can, he said. <I Nathan had gravitated bydivine right to the head of the concern. In times ofdoubt all the others looked to Nathan Rothschild must be given the credit fora financial stroke that lifted the Rothschilds absolutelyout and away from competition. It was in the spring of Eighteen Hundred Fifteen 38Napoleon had been banished to Elba, and now returnedlike a conquering hero. His magnetic name was rollingopposition before him as the sun dissipates the was in a tumult of terror!Would Napoleon do again what he had done before—trample the cities beneath his inconsiderate feet andparcel out the people and the land among his favorites ?1$ Engl
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