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The Devil and Tom Walker
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You shall extort bonds, foreclose mortgages, drive the merchants to bankruptcy—†
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mortgages = real estate loans; or pledges something for a loan
He accumulated bonds and mortgages, gradually squeezed his customers closer and closer, and sent them at length, dry as a sponge, from his door.†
He was on the point of foreclosing a mortgage, by which he would complete the ruin of an unlucky land-speculator for whom he had professed the greatest friendship.†

mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan
He had left his little Bible at the bottom of his coat-pocket and his big Bible on the desk buried under the mortgage he was about to foreclose: never was sinner taken more unawares.†
Tom Walker never returned to foreclose the mortgage.†
On searching his coffers, all his bonds and mortgages were reduced to cinders.†

mortgages = real estate loans; or pledges something for a loan

Definitions:

(1) (mortgage)
a real estate loan; or to offer real estate as collateral for a loan

(collateral is something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)