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If I were disposed to argue the question, I should contend that the man who gets a bushel of corn or a sack of good potatoes out of the land has added a more real asset to the wealth of the community, and therefore deserves more praise from the commonwealth, than all the tribe of stockbrokers since the world began; for these lords of wealth, who reign supreme in cities, produce nothing.
Mrs Villiers became mixed up in mining matters, and bought and sold on 'Change with such foresight and promptitude of action that she soon began to make a lot of money. Stockbrokers are not, as a rule, romantic, but one of the fraternity was so struck with her persistent good fortune that he christened her Madame Midas, after that Greek King whose touch turned everything into gold.
It was a passage, almost a tunnel for a few yards, leading to an open space, on one side of which was an old churchyard strange survival in such a part and on the other the offices of several firms of stockbrokers, a Russian banker, an actuary. It was the barest of impulses which led him to glance up the entry before he blew out the match.
Fosdick, Williamson and Hendricks are one of the biggest brokerage houses goin', so a good many New Yorkers have told me." "No doubt. But, Grandfather, you've had some experience with me as a business man; how do you think I would fit into a firm of stockbrokers?" Captain Lote's eye twinkled, but he did not answer the question.
Still, certain cafés are able to boast a clientèle, with the military, journalistic, artistic or commercial element in preponderating force cafés where the stockbrokers, students or officers go but the old historic café, the café of tradition, where you were sure to find some celebrity on exhibition a first-class poet or a philosopher may be said to be defunct.
Everybody being very rich, has afforded to be very literary, books being considered a luxury almost as elegant and necessary as ottomans, bonbons, and pier-glasses. Consols at 100 were the origin of all book societies. The Stockbrokers' ladies took off the quarto travels and the hot-pressed poetry. They were the patronesses of your patent ink and your wire-wove paper. That is all past.
In London, it is only foreigners and green-fruit brokers and such like doubtful people, with neither self-respect nor position to maintain, who break the City's law. Stockbrokers are, of course, men apart from the rest.
The words "a priest" reached the ears of several people, and produced uproarious jeering among the stockbrokers, for faith with these gentlemen means a belief that a scrap of paper called a mortgage represents an estate, and the List of Fundholders is their Bible. "Shall I have time to repent?" said Castanier to himself, in a piteous voice, that impressed Claparon.
I do not think that Giolitti and the stockbrokers will keep old Rome off the old roads where the legions went. Postscript While this volume was passing through the press, Mr. The article is called "The Angelic Leaders" It is written by Miss Phyllis Campbell. I have read it with great care. Miss Campbell says that she was in France when the war broke out.
You left him at the hotel at Southampton only an hour before you got my telegram." "What of it?" Stanley asked. "Nothing, except this," Mr. Bundercombe concluded: "Your two partners were so scared at the result of the Hammersmith affair and at your sentence that they turned over a new leaf. They went into business as outside stockbrokers with your capital.
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