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Her acquaintance with him was slight, but from a distance she had always esteemed him, partly for his mature good-looks, and partly for the distinguished manner which had always been a large fraction of his stock-in-trade, and was now to be listed among his principal assets. Her esteem, however, applied to him merely as an individual, and not as a debtor.
What in the ordinary view of commercial affairs would have furnished but one item in the list of failures which record the misfortunes of ninety per cent who engage in business, became in this instance a notable case through the eminence of the chief actor. What might he have done? The law could lay claim upon his personal assets.
They coerce us; we must treat them consistently, whether or not we like the results. The rules of addition apply to our debts as rigorously as to our assets. The hundredth decimal of pi, the ratio of the circumference to its diameter, is predetermined ideally now, tho no one may have computed it.
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Depew, the world has always gone around, it always will go around." He managed with the aid of Commodore Vanderbilt to save his assets from sacrifice. In a few years they recovered normal value, and Mr. Schell with his fortune intact found "the world had gone around" and he was on top again. I have often felt the inspiration of Mr.
You're the only person in the world I'd allow to be sorry for me." He was touched. There was no coquetry in her manner. She paid her little tribute quite sincerely and frankly. "I've been taking stock to-day," she went on, "and I put you among my assets. One reliable gentleman, six feet tall, weight about a hundred and seventy, in good condition.
He said nothing about manliness, pluck, history, or Auld Lang Syne. He said he had given his services as Chairman to the football club for thirteen years; that he had taken up £2000 worth of shares in the Company; and that as at that moment the Company's liabilities would exactly absorb its assets, his £2000 was worth exactly nothing.
So a book was handed him, and the president shook him by the hand with all the warmth that eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars of increased assets and four new depositors implied. Peter did not need to draw any of the two hundred and fifty dollars, however. In November he had another knock at his door. It proved to be Mr.
His inborn uprightness, the implicit confidence in men and things, which was the foundation of his transparent nature, had been intensified of late by preoccupation resulting from his pursuit of the Risler Press, an invention destined to revolutionize the wall-paper industry and representing in his eyes his contribution to the partnership assets.
Nothing short of a reef would break her up." "Ah, well," sighed the shipowner, "the few timbers you have shown me here are the remaining assets out of £300,000." "Was she not insured?" inquired Robert. "No; that is, I have recently adopted a scheme of mutual self-insurance, and the loss falls pro rata on my other vessels." The baronet glanced covertly at Iris.
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