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Carshaw and Winifred were married quietly. Their honeymoon consisted of the trip to Massachusetts when he began work in the cotton mill. Meiklejohn fulfilled his promise. When the Costa Rica cotton concession reached its zenith he sold out, resigned his seat in the Senate and transferred to Winifred railway cash and gilt-edged bonds to the total value of a half a million dollars.
"You don't mean it?" exclaimed Gibbon, in dismay. "Yes, I do. I didn't open it till this morning, and in place of government bonds, I found only folded slips of newspaper." By this time Gibbon was suspicious. Having no confidence in Stark, it occurred to him that it was a ruse to deprive him of his share of the bonds. "I don't believe you," he said.
The luring the haughty King into the Red Sea, and bringing him under the walls of water suddenly let loose! What majestic vengeance! Of the idle dreams of aged persons the possibility of attaching the young to them in sentimental bonds of strength to insure resistance to every other attachment is the idlest.
"Is that love which trusts not and is not ready to share the lot even of the backslider?" "Yes, child, yes," interrupted the old woman. "To suffer all things, to endure all things, is the duty of true love, and therefore of yours; but you must not allow the most indissoluble of all bonds to unite you to him till the back-slider has learnt to walk firmly.
In the Treasury Building I was permitted to join a small party of some distinction and shared with each of them the privilege of holding in my hands for a moment eight million dollars in government bonds.
"Why ah yes I am Mr. Blank's confidential secretary," he blurted out. "And ah of course Mr. Blank does not know that I have speculated with the bonds and lost them." "The bonds are " "In the hands of Bunker & Burke.
I am aware that it will be said, and very truly, that the concerns of merchants, the purchasing of great estates, and various other large transactions, cannot be carried on in this manner; but these are rare exceptions to the rule. And even in these cases, there might be much less of bills and bonds, and all the sources of litigation, than there now is.
In addition, as we have already intimated, many Londoners in the future may abandon the city office altogether, preferring to do their business in more agreeable surroundings. Such a business as book publishing, for example, has no unbreakable bonds to keep it in the region of high rent and congested streets.
I have seen this by my magic: that these men who bound thee come even now to take thee, sleeping, and cast thee and thy thrall into the deep, there to drown." "If it is fated it will befall," he said in his dream. "Nay, it shall not befall. Put forth all thy might and burst thy bonds. Then fetch Whitefire; cut away the bonds of Skallagrim, and give him his axe and shield.
He gazed about him vaguely. "Something about bonds, wasn't it?" asked Mr. Tutt. "Yes," replied Mr. Barrows; "Great Lakes and Canadian Southern." "Of course! Of course!" "A wonderful property," murmured Mr. Barrows regretfully. "The bonds were perfectly good.
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