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And you can't deny that he is a gentleman, every inch of him." "I do not deny that he has a very good appearance indeed. But well, he was brought up in San Francisco and no one ever heard of his parents. He admitted to me at the table that his father was only a clerk in a broker's office. He is not one of us and that is the end of it." "Why not make him one? Quite easy.
"Ah, but you don't know yet all about your horse. In some respects I've never seen a pony like him." "I I never have," returned the child. "Oh, but you'll be surprised at this. This pony has a bank account." Jewel slowly grew quiet. "Nobody has to pay for his board and clothes. He is very independent. He would have it that way." "Grandpa!" came in muffled tones from the broker's vest.
Those strange and subtle men seem to have reasoned themselves into a belief in dreams, and they speak with cool confidence, as though they were describing scenes as vivid and material as are the crowds in a bazaar. There is no hesitation for them; they describe the features of the future existence with the dry minuteness of a broker's catalogue.
He came home somewhat richer than he left, for he brought back with him a second-hand copy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost, an odd volume, with some leaves torn out, of Shakespeare's 'Tempest, both works purchased at a broker's shop at Oundle, and, over and above these acquisitions, a knowledge of the goose step.
He and a clerk from another broker's office, J. Willett VanHorne, had recently formed a partnership as Williams & VanHorne, Bankers and Dealers in Stocks and Bonds. He was not seeking to be married, but he intended to be married some day, and it was no part of his scheme of life to deny himself anything he wished. Support a wife?
Of course big business firms recognized a broker's expertness or lack of it, though, quite frequently, as in Hilmer's case, they were more snared by a share in the profits than by the claims of efficiency. But Starratt wanted to succeed merely on his merit. He wanted to teach people to say of him: "I go to Fred Starratt because he's the keenest, the most reliable man in the field.
Still, what with the cold and what with the reaction after so great an excitement, his feeble body began to shiver desperately. He thought at last he would light a foot-warmer he had just purchased for old iron at a broker's; that would only spend a halfpenneyworth of charcoal. No, he wouldn't; he would look at his money; that would cheer him.
"If it don't act exactly as I say don't touch it. It if does, go in for all you're worth. If stocks start down as I say they will, sell short, cover at noon, and then buy for the rise. Don't listen to fools, just buy, buy, buy! You can sell before the market closes and make twenty thousand dollars." "I'll drop into a broker's office and watch the market open any way, Adams."
Even a lazy man, who does nothing but make debts, has time to marry a widow who pays them; a priest finds time to become a bishop 'in partibus. A sober, intelligent young fellow, who begins with a small capital as a money-changer, soon buys a share in a broker's business; and, to go even lower, a petty clerk becomes a notary, a rag-picker lays by two or three thousand francs a year, and the poorest workmen often become manufacturers; whereas, in the rotatory movement of this present civilization, which mistakes perpetual division and redivision for progress, an unhappy civil service clerk, like Chazelle for instance, is forced to dine for twenty-two sous a meal, struggles with his tailor and bootmaker, gets into debt, and is an absolute nothing; worse than that, he becomes an idiot!
I followed her into the drawing-room, and, threading my way amongst the litter of small tables and miscellaneous furniture by which ladies nowadays convert their special domain into the semblance of a broker's shop, let go my anchor in the vicinity of the fireplace to await the parlourmaid's report. I had not long to wait, for in less than a minute Miss Gibson herself entered the room.
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