"Then Miss Elisabet', what for do you not ask my friend Winthrop to buy it for you? He knows all business. He will do it."
"I cannot — I have not the liberty — He is not enough a friend of mine, for me to ask him such a favour."
"But Miss Elisabet', what will you do wiz all that large ground and water?"
"Buy it, — first, sir; and then I will see. I want it."
"I see you do," said the naturalist. "Well, then I shall get it for you — if I can — I hope your money will not get me in trouble."
"If you are at all afraid of that, Mr. Herder, I will find some other way —"
"I never was afraid of nozing in my life, Miss Elisabet' — only I do not know neizer how to get money, neizer how to spend it — in this way. What will Mr. Haye say to me when I go to buy all this great land of him? He will say —"
"You're not to buy it of him, Mr. Herder."
"No?" said the naturalist. "Of who, then? I thought you said he was going to sell it."
"Yes, he is — but he has somebody else to do it for him. Here, Mr. Herder, — here is the advertisement; — see — don't read the first part, — all that has nothing to do with it, — here is the place. 'At the Merchant's Exchange, in the city of Mannahatta, on the first day of September, 1821, at 12 o'clock noon of that day' — and then comes the description of the place. It is to be sold at public auction."