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Dyspepsia has spared me many disappointments; people are never any worse than I believe them to be." "You don't believe Jim is in this, too? Why, he is Lorelei's brother!" "What possible difference can that make to a man of his stamp?" the banker demanded, querulously. "Don't you know your own brother-in-law?
No there was no one who would, that could have favoured me. No one I could think of. "Stop:" the banker himself! Happy thought, the banker Brown! Good, generous Brown, of the English house, Brown and Co., who, with smiling face, has already cashed my drafts for me. He will do it! The very man! Why did I not think of him sooner?
"In London;" and the old banker dovetailed his fingers and stood with a smile as if ready for all questions. "And for my services my assistance in this game of yours " "Pardon me," interrupted Bugbee, sententiously, "it is not a game of mine. It is my plan to save the King from certain destruction." "Well, whatever it is," said Mrs. Oswald Carey, impatiently, "for my part of it I shall have what?"
John Telfer had a small income left him by his father, once a banker in the town, and in his youth he had gone to New York to study art, and later to Paris; but lacking ability or industry to get on had come back to Caxton where he had married Eleanor Millis, a prosperous milliner.
I dare say the deep mourning habiliments in which the domestics of that establishment appeared, were purchased out of the funds left in his hands, which Ethel's banker and brother had at her disposal.
"If you will tell me her name and address?" whispered the banker. He was much given to charity, but it had been perfunctory, it was extended on the advice of his secretary. In helping here, he felt a genial glow of personal pleasure. It was much more satisfactory than giving an Old Master to his private chapel.
"How much do you want?" asked Rimrock and fetched out a great sheaf of Navajoa. "Well not Navajoa," said the banker uneasily, "we have quite a lot of that already, on brokers' loans. Mr. Buckbee, you know. But if you would just put up, say two thousand shares of Tecolote " "No!" "We could loan you up to two million."
The interests of all landowners were identical; those of the traders were varying and conflicting. For long periods the landowner could expect the continuance of existing fundamental laws regarding the ownership of land, while the shipper, the factory owner, the banker did not know what different set of laws might be enacted at any time.
As with us, you found men of the highest social and professional grade serving in every rank of the American Army; one, a society man and banker, was running a gang of negroes whose job it was to shovel sand into cars. In peace times thirty thousand pounds a year could not have bought him.
The next day, a short while before we left, the broker I had employed in the redemption of the lady's effects, told me that the banker, whom Schwerin had cheated, was going to send an express to Berlin, to enquire whether the king would object to Count Schwerin's being proceeded against with the utmost rigour of the law. "Alas!" cried his late mistress, "that's what he was most afraid of.
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