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She had dragged herself down to the dining-room, and he had neglected his morning paper, and lingered for mere chatter. He had telephoned from his office to ask her for the noon hour, too. He had taken her to the Bankers' Club for luncheon in the big Blue Room. He had then suggested that they dine together and go to any theater she liked. Charity Coe's head was turned by all this attention.
Warren's past, and regarded Vivie as an outlaw said he would try to communicate with her friends in England and see if through the American Relief organization, funds could be transmitted for their maintenance. She gave him the addresses of Rossiter, Praed, and her mother's London bankers. Vivie now tried to settle down to a life of usefulness.
The flour trade alone occupied Madame Desvarennes's attention. She ruled the prices in the market; and great bankers came to her office and did business with her on a footing of equality. She did not become any prouder for it, she knew too well the strength and weakness of life to have pride; her former plain dealing had not stiffened into self-sufficiency.
We set out, therefore, by the way of Leyden, for Amsterdam, where we arrived on the 10th, I had prepared an estimate, showing, that Florins. There would be necessary for the year '88 531,937-10 '89 538,540 '90 473,540 Total, 1,544,017-10 Florins. To meet this, the bankers had in hand, 79,268-2-8 and the unsold bonds would yield, 542,800 Leaving a deficit of 921,949-7-4
Had we done so, we probably would have left the town with $50,000. Soon as we arrived we went to a cafe, and, leaving Mac there and all the money and papers in the bag, I hastened to the bankers, hoping to find them open and ready for business.
A gold mine was thus opened for the speculators. He also caused a law to be passed which required the judges of civil and criminal cases to be taken from the equestrians, a privilege before enjoyed by the Senate. And thus a senator, impeached for his conduct as provincial governor, was now tried, not as before, by his peer, but by merchants and bankers.
Ten days late a cable came: I consent to my daughter's visiting you. The lawyer cabled at once making all arrangements through their bankers in New York for Miss O'Connell's journey. That night Kingsnorth slept without being disturbed. He awoke refreshed in the morning. It was the first kindly action he had done for many years.
Many worthy persons indulge in this fond notion, that they are imposing upon the world; strive to fancy, for instance, that their bankers consider them men of property because they keep a tolerable balance, pay little tradesmen's bills with ostentatious punctuality, and so forth but the world, let us be pretty sure, is as wise as need be, and guesses our real condition with a marvellous instinct, or learns it with curious skill.
"But each of us here owns land and it is necessary to keep us alive to send back directives to our bankers and foremen to give aid in one form or another to Sharkey and the Division Chiefs." "I see," said Connel. "If you were to die, then your property would be out of their reach." "Exactly," said Carson. "Is Sharkey the real leader of the movement?" "I don't believe so. But then, no one knows.
It was decided, after some talk, that Addison should go. When he reached New York he found, to his surprise, that the local opposition to Cowperwood had, for some mysterious reason, begun to take root in the East. "I'll tell you how it is," observed Joseph Haeckelheimer, to whom Addison applied a short, smug, pussy person who was the head of Haeckelheimer, Gotloeb & Co., international bankers.
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