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Well, you and Mr. Kenyon remind me of the "Babes," poor innocent little things! and London this part of it is the dark and pathless forest. I am the bird hovering about you, waiting to cover you with leaves. The leaves, to do any good, ought to be cheques fluttering down on you, but, alas! I haven't any. If negotiable cheques only grew on trees, life would not be so difficult.
"My secretary has the figures, I believe," said the earl, slightly bored. "Well, we'll say thirty thousand in round figures. Now what hope have you of ever paying that sum off?" "None unless I er well, unless I should be fortunate enough to secure a rich wife." "Precisely; that is exactly what I thought," rejoined Terwilliger. "Marriage is your only asset, and as yet that is hardly negotiable.
Melson, who was possessed of no other negotiable securities, had hastened to employ these in capturing the eldest Miss Van Osburgh: since then he had grown stout and wheezy, and was given to telling anecdotes about his children.
But the chance of either white or black man is his own and is not negotiable. That is the law! Not without fitness can there be ultimate success. Not until the fullness of the years can there be attainment for any creature of this earth. That is the law!
Besides his trophies, the poet left Ulysses an old house in Valencia, some real estate and a certain amount in negotiable securities, total, thirty thousand dollars. The other guardian of his infancy, the vigorous Triton, seemed to be unaffected by the passing of the years.
The truculent knave had left little behind him save a lot of old clothes, bonds which were not negotiable, and some wrappers used by the bank of Melbourne for doing up packets of bills. Upon one of these was a mark of fifty pounds sterling, showing that Jackwell's assets, unless enormous, could be made to fit in a very small space. He probably carried all he owned upon his person.
But, though not negotiable, it might be transferred; but the holder must sue in the name of Smith, and Brown might offset any demands which he has against Smith. An indorsement, made by writing the name only on the back of a note, is called a blank indorsement. A full indorsement is one which points out the person to whom the note is to be paid.
'You shall not stay in my house, cried Mr Watts. 'This is the last time you shall have a bed at the "Tregonwell Arms". 'I insist upon remaining, replied Mr Finsbury, with spirit; 'I remain by Act of Parliament; turn me out if you dare. 'Then pay your bill, said Mr Watts. 'Take that, cried the old man, tossing him the negotiable bill. 'It is not legal tender, replied Mr Watts.
One man gave as security because the money is advanced as a loan, not as a gift a cheque on a Chicago bank, but he admitted that the cheque was not negotiable, as it was drawn on one of the Lorrimer banks of Chicago, which had gone into the hands of receivers since he left for Europe. Callers included a number of negro song and dance artists who had come to the end of their resources.
But what is a sectional bookcase to a man with $500,000 in his pocket and the Seven Seas before him? It was a few days later, when a goodly number of the late Uncle Tom's easily negotiable securities had been converted into cash, and the cash deposited in the bank, that Cleggett bought the Jasper B. He discovered her near the town of Fairport, Long Island, one afternoon.