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Garavel, are one of the few who are clear-headed enough to see that her destiny is linked with ours, and there is no one who can direct her so well as you." "It is impossible!" repeated Garavel, his agitation growing more pronounced. "General Alfarez is my friend. His son will be my son." "Ramon! Is Ramon engaged to your daughter?" "Yes," exclaimed the banker, shortly. He began to pace the room.
Muir had watched them curiously during his stay in the mountains, and felt that something had occurred which he could not fathom. Graydon's manner at parting and since, during business hours, had confirmed this impression. He was almost as grave and reticent as the banker himself, and the latter began to chafe and grow irritable over the problem which he was bent on seeing solved in but one way.
God could not let men be so cruel as to send Auntie Sue's Brian Kent to prison because that other Brian Kent, tormented by wrong environment, and driven by an evil combination of circumstances, had taken a few dollars of the bank's money! And Betty Jo No, no! Auntie Sue's heart cried out in protest. There must be some way. She would find some way. The banker Homer Ward!
He was a fine-looking man, but he held the cards so closely together in his left hand that I could not see them. This did not inspire me with confidence, so I only punted a ducat at a time. I was persistently unlucky, but I only lost a score of ducats. After five or six deals the banker, asked me politely why I staked such small sums against him.
Gauntlet, who by the first post wrote a polite letter of acknowledgment to the commodore; another to her own son, importing that she had already sent the draft to a friend in London, with directions to deposit it in the hands of a certain banker, for the purchase of the first ensigncy to be sold; and she took the liberty of sending a third to Peregrine, couched in very affectionate terms, with a kind postscript, signed by Miss Sophy and his charming Emily.
The distinctive function of the banker, says Ricardo, 'begins as soon as he uses the money of others; as long as he uses his own money he is only a capitalist. In continental language, Lombard Street is an organization of credit, and we are to see if it is a good or bad organization in its kind, or if, as is most likely, it turn out to be mixed, what are its merits and what are its defects?
"Your love your love! which will crown me a queen among women!" she whispered, softly. The morning succeeding this scene, Lord Arondelle called and asked for a private interview with Sir Lemuel Levison. He was invited up into the library, where he found the banker alone among his books. "Good morning, Arondelle. Glad to see you.
The financial activity which centred in the Forum was a consequence, not merely of the contract-system encouraged by the State and of the business of the banker and the money-lender, but of the great foreign trade which supplied the wants and luxuries of Italy and Rome.
There is a book-case, with a few spick-and-span books standing in prim, cold rows behind the glass doors which are always locked. The key is somewhere, no doubt. There are no pictures on the walls, save a fancy calendar presented with the compliments of the Judge's banker, a crayon portrait of the Judge's father in a cheap gilt frame, and another calendar, compliments of the Judge's grocer.
The address of his banker in Paris, all the plans for their voyage to Russia, even the tender messages to the sister of his love all these were the last goad to a maddened man, whose raging invective and brutal violence drove a weeping woman out into the cheerless night. He deemed her the Russian's cherished mistress.
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