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Adams, a very respectable bill discounter." The two men bowed to each other, and Arthur Wardlaw sat down motionless. "Sir, did you draw a note of hand to-day?" inquired Adams of the elder merchant. "I dare say I did. Did you discount one signed by me?" "Yes, sir, we did." "Well, sir, you have only to present it at maturity. Wardlaw & Son will provide for it, I dare say."
And after expressing his warmest sympathy for the major's misfortunes, referred him to Alderman Dan Dooley, who was a great discounter of notes, and did a favor for a friend now and then, especially when there was a large return and no uncertainty. The major and his official friend repaired without delay to the alderman's house. But that gentleman only had a thousand and one regrets to offer.
Metivier, jr., who was more of a commission merchant in paper than a regular dealer, and Barbet, much more of a money lender and discounter than a bookseller, kept these vast warerooms for the purpose of storing, one, his stacks of paper, bought of needy manufacturers, the other, editions of books given as security for loans.
He saw himself sitting as a Director at a Bank Meeting an enlarged and glorified Fishberry. Now he was playing Fox and pulling for the Dream to work out. The cold-eyed Custodians up at the main Fortress of Credit began to take notice of the Rustler. He was a Glutton for Punishment, a Discounter from away back, and a Demon for applying the Acid Test to every Account.
Bertie stroked his big beard, sipped his tea, chatted over his misfortunes in a half comic, half serious tone, and ended by promising his sister that he would do his very best to make himself agreeable to the widow Bold. Then Charlotte followed her father to his own room and softened down his wrath, and persuaded him to say nothing more about the Jew bill discounter, at any rate for a few weeks.
Her face is as fresh as a frosty morning in autumn; there are wrinkles about the eyes that vary in their expression from the set smile of a ballet-dancer to the dark, suspicious scowl of a discounter of bills; in short, she is at once the embodiment and interpretation of her lodging-house, as surely as her lodging-house implies the existence of its mistress.
It is not just that the manufacturer who owns a mill, or he who merely owns a warehouse, and employs out-door work-people that the dealer in money, the discounter, the various large agencies, the merchant who transacts his business in a single office and sends his ship all over the world, and the great carriers, because their business happens not to be rateable according to the law, should bear no greater burden than the shop-keepers in a great London thoroughfare.
And a very good speculation it proved, for, whereas he was then scarcely able to make both ends meet by mere professional roguery, and dressed in a black gown which you know he always wears in court yet he no sooner threw the cloak of religion over that, than he advanced rapidly and the consequence is that he is now privately a usurious discounter of bills."
His face lighted up with a gleam of almost savage joy; he called to a little boy who was passing, and gave him his horse to hold. Then we went up to the old bill discounter.
If they make a hit now, it will only stave off bankruptcy for another six months, sooner or later they will have to go. They are cleverer at tippling than at bookselling. In my own case, their bills mean business; and that being so, I can afford to give more than a professional discounter who simply looks at the signatures.
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