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The European merchants gave us most hospitable entertainments on a very grand scale, and Mr Oswald, in particular, transported our spare boxes to England. Ladha, the customs master, was our banker, and found our outfit of beads, brass wire, and cloths, which is the circulating medium in inner Africa instead of money.
Meanwhile I will see your father, and rid you, I trust, of his presence." The banker, who spoke in a very hurried and even impatient voice, waited for no reply, but took his way to Alice's house.
"He's done the first aid, and he's off getting what's needed for the operation. He'll be here in a minute or so," said a banker who, a few days before, had refused Crozier credit. "Gently, gently don't do it that way," said Mrs. Tynan in sharp reproof as they began to take off Crozier's clothes.
And if we can help you " "Kit," interposed the colonel, "we can give Ramabai and Pundita only our good wishes. Our way lies to the west, to the seaport and home." Ramabai bowed. And the party returned to the compound rather subdued. This quiet young native banker would go far. "And if I am ever queen, will my beautiful Mem-sahib come back some day and visit me?"
"If you want proofs," continued Benedetto, coldly, "here they are." He took Anselmo's writing out of his pocket and handed it to the banker. "Read," he said, indifferently. "What do you want from me?" murmured Danglars, hoarsely. "First, money, and then let us talk further." "You shall have what you want," replied Danglars. "Good; now comes the second point."
Purdie did remember, and he looked at the famous expert with great interest. There was, however, nothing at all remarkable about Dr. Sperling-Lawson's appearance he was a quiet, self-possessed, plain-faced gentleman who might have been a barrister or a banker for all that any one could tell to the contrary. He gave his evidence in a matter-of-fact tone strongly in contrast to Dr.
When a loan is made to a bank it is called a "deposit" and rightly, for it is only placed in the banker's hands and does not in any part become his. This is true of any amount, great or small, whether the deposit draws interest or not. The lender never loses his sense of ownership of the whole amount, nor does the banker encourage the fiction that he has become part owner.
Nearer and nearer came the roar as he sat there, irresistible, cumulatively menacing as a force of nature; and instinctively, by it alone, the listener marked the approach of its makers. He could hear them down the street at the other end of the block before the residence of Banker Briggs.
Ethel was in her aunt's room, comfortably wrapped in a pink kimono, when she asked this question. "What do you think of it, Ethel?" "I am not sure." "The dinner was well served." "Yes. Who was the little dark man you talked with, aunt?" "He was a Mr. Marriot, a banker, and a friend of Bryce Denning's. He is a fresh addition to society, I think.
The elder Macintosh was a banker in one of the larger county towns of Scotland at least, such is the profession and position there accorded by popular consent to one who is, in fact, only a bank-agent, for it is a post involving a good deal of influence and a yet greater responsibility.
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