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That would make a premium of say fifty thousand dollars per annum. The commission to the insurance broker who handled that line who could secure it and control it would be ten per cent of fifty thousand, or five thousand dollars. Half that amount I am doing these sums for you so that you can catch the idea would be twenty-five hundred without any risk to yourself and every year of your life.
"They are the teeth of my city," said Brimstead in a low voice. "I've drawed 'em out. They ain't goin' to bite me no more." "They are the towers and steeples of El Dorado," Samson laughed. "Have any of the notes been paid?" "Not one and I can't get a word from my broker about the men who drew the notes who they are or where they are."
My home was in Devonshire, England. My step-father was a merchant who finally became a half banker and half broker. When I was a little kid my mother died, and my father after a while married a widow who had a little daughter five years younger than myself. My father died, and my stepmother married a man named Hamlin.
Every fifteen days, when the great fleet of barks comes into port, these brokers come to the water side, and the merchants immediately on landing give charge of their cargoes to the broker who transacts their business, with the marks of all their bales and packages.
In a very few minutes the roof was covered with his panting spoil. The broker could himself distinguish that many of them were personal friends; nay, some of them were familiar frequenters of the building on which they were now miserably stranded.
At nine o'clock the next morning, Peckham was on the street lying in wait for an early broker. It was not until half-past nine that they began to arrive. "Any bids for Boa Constrictor?" Peckham inquired of Macdugal, the first-comer. "They were bidding forty cents at the club last night, with no takers." "Let me know if you get fifty cents bid." "How much do you offer?" "Ten thousand shares."
I pledged my love for her in Pol Roger, but she would have nothing but water. "I no drink these times," she explained. "Maybe some day I do again. Make fat people too much bigger. That flat woman from 'Nited States, ain't she funny? I think missionary." From the screened area in which the consuls dined with the broker one heard: "Here's to the king, God bless him!" "Hoch der Kaiser!"
When he pushed open a door on which MANTON & CO. showed in black letters he caught his breath. Long long past! Was it possible that he had been penned up for three years in this stifling place? Manton carried on various lines of business, and for Middleville, he was held to be something of a merchant and broker.
She was the kind of girl that might have fancies for artists and poets, but might end by marrying a prosperous broker, and leavening a vast lump of moneyed and fashionable life with her culture, generosity, and good-will.
"Bend low," replied the broker, as he buttoned up his coat ready to depart. The Devil inclined his ear. "I call it WILD CAT!" In the second year of the reign of the renowned Caliph Lo there dwelt in SILVER LAND, adjoining his territory, a certain terrible ogress.
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