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The grotesquerie of history! Moses, Sinai, Palestine, Isaiah, Ezra, the Temple, Christ, the Exile, the Ghettos, the Martyrdoms all this to give the Austrian comic papers jokes about stockbrokers with noses big enough to support unheld opera glasses.
If business is slack, they tell each other jokes, which get into the papers with some such introduction as, "A good story going the round of the Stock Exchange." Probably it was going the round of the nurseries in 72, but the stockbrokers have been so busy making Consols go up and down that they have not been able to listen to it before.
He gave up his house in town, and the quidnuncs thought that they had seen the last of him as a Minister of the Crown, whilst the merchants and the stockbrokers of the City were supposed to scout his name, and to be ready to lift up their heel against him at the next election. Meanwhile, Lord John studied to be quiet, and succeeded.
Your position as secretary to the minister renders your authority great on the subject of political news; you never open your mouth but the stockbrokers immediately stenograph your words. Cause her to lose a hundred thousand francs, and that would teach her prudence." "I do not understand," stammered Lucien.
At half-past five the holder of the bond was a house-painter, who was lounging by the door of the building in the Rue Feydeau, where at that time stockbrokers temporarily congregated. The house-painter, simple fellow, could not think what was the matter with him. He "felt all anyhow"; so he told his wife when he went home.
She was accompanied by another young woman, whose appearance was a little too obvious to be prepossessing, and three or four young men dark, clean-shaven, dressed with the irritating exactness of their class young stockbrokers or boys about town. Miss Brown's eyes grew very wide open. "What a little beast!" she exclaimed. "Who?" Peter Ruff asked.
At the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, most of the members of the family had gone over into the world of stockbrokers and bankers, and thence the changes went still further.
She seized the howling infant, vowing that its unnatural father and grandfather were bent upon starving it she consoled and sent Rosey into hysterics she took the outlawed parson to whose church they went, and the choice society of bankrupt captains, captains' ladies, fugitive stockbrokers' wives, and dingy frequenters of billiard-rooms, and refugees from the Bench, into her councils; and in her daily visits amongst these personages, and her walks on the pier, whither she trudged with poor Rosey in her train, Mrs.
Besides, the party wants rich men, and it would be a good move on his part." That was all, and then the two silk-hatted, frock-coated men had got out. Eminently well-to-do men probably both stockbrokers, but men who looked as if they would know. Hal had gone on home in a sudden torment of feeling.
Even the wool exchange in Melbourne could not be told from the familiar stock exchange of other countries. Wool brokers are just like stockbrokers; they all bounce from their seats and put up their hands and yell in unison no stranger can tell what and the president calmly says "Sold to Smith & Co., threpence farthing next!" when probably nothing of the kind happened; for how should he know?
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