why then did you not put my money into a bank, that when I came I might have received it back with interest?
Your duty then was to deposit my money in some bank, and so when I came I should have got back my property with interest.
»`By your own words,' he replied, `I will judge you, you bad servant. You knew me to be a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow:«
»And he said to those who stood by,« `Take the pound from him and give it to him who has the ten pounds.'