text:  And in the running account between us (I mean in the ordinary sense as to money ) the balance could not be in _his_ favour; since I on receiving a sum of money (considerable in the eyes of us both ) had transferred pretty nearly the whole of it to _him_ for the purpose ostensibly held out to me (but of course a hoax) of purchasing certain law "stamps;" for he was then pursuing a diplomatic correspondence with various Jews who lent money to young heirs in some trifling proportion on my own insignificant account but much more truly on the account of Lord A----t my young friend