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She believed her when she had said that she liked her, just as she knew that she had lied when she had said that she was glad to see her. She understood now that Mrs. Toomey had accepted the loan hoping to carry water on both shoulders, and finding herself unable to do so, had eased herself of the burden which required the least courage.
"Signore, you place my conscience in an awkward position. You are now my debtor some six thousand sequins, and were I to make this loan of money in trust, and were you to return it two propositions I make on supposition a natural love for my own might cause me to pass the payment to account, whereby I should put the assets of Levi in jeopardy."
Late in November the French people were called upon to subscribe to a "loan of victory."
Give her, in addition, her Loan Society, her Marine, Fire, and life Assurance Company, and some others that will shortly be proposed, and capital will flow in from other countries property will acquire a value in the market, that will increase with the increase of wealth, and she will yet be a flourishing island, and her inhabitants a happy and contented people."
You know that is good." "Oh, yes, that's good. Stafford will accept that as collateral if the bank is in a position to extend its loans. I'll go and see." When he told Stafford what the situation was, that astute banker who had been in many a financial fisticuff with Tandy quietly said: "I don't see why we should make the loan.
A loan is the easy and obvious way out. London and Paris between them will find two or three millions with pleasure.
I have asked it as a loan or charity, if they chose to regard it as the same thing, from men of wealth who have known me intimately for many years, but all in vain. And so I am going to destroy myself that my family may get immediate relief through the paltry few thousand dollars of life insurance, all that remains of the nearly two hundred thousand dollars I carried in my prosperous days.
'The Countess rises from the table. She has no more money, and she offers my Lord her chair. 'Instead of taking it, he politely places his winnings in her hand, and begs her to accept the loan as a favour to himself. The Countess stakes again, and loses again. My Lord smiles superbly, and presses a second loan on her. From that moment her luck turns. She wins, and wins largely.
But in addition to the general considerations which rendered the early sale of these lands proper, it was a leading object at this time to derive as large a sum as possible from this source, and thus diminish by that amount the public loan rendered necessary by the existence of a foreign war.
Lablache asked, ignoring the other's flippant tone. Bill shrugged. "Debts of honor must be met first," he said quietly. "Mancha must be paid in full. I shall take care of that. For the rest, I have no doubt your business knowledge will prompt you as to what course the Calford Loan Co. and yourself had best adopt." Lablache was slightly taken aback at the cool indifference of this man.
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