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Updated: May 8, 2025
"It is all safe in my satchel," said the lawyer, as they rode together to the hotel; "and our dear friends are as good as rescued already. It's pretty bulky, Kenneth four hundred thousand lira but it is all in notes on the Banca d'Italia, for we couldn't manage gold." "Quite a haul for the brigand," observed Kenneth, thoughtfully. "True; but little enough for the lives of two men.
Many of those financial institutions were but branches of German houses, and their methods were identical with those of the Banca Commerciale: long credits and easy modes of repayment offered to all those who agreed to deal with German firms, while discredit, ostracism, and ruin threatened the recalcitrant.
He knelt and kissed her a kiss that she returned and then, slowly, happily, and filled with the joy of comradeship, they drove their banca once more to the white and gleaming beach.
We're well armed you see, and " "Are we going to stay here in the tower if they attack?" "No. They might hold us prisoners for a week. There's no telling how many there may be. Hundreds, perhaps thousands. Once they get the scent of game, they'll gather for miles and miles around; from all over the island. So you see " "Our best plan, then, will be to make for the banca?" "Assuredly!
A solemn silence followed these words. In the meantime, the banca carried along imperceptibly by the waves, neared the shore. Elias was the first to break the silence. "What have I to say to those who have sent me?" he asked, changing the tone of his voice. "I have already told you that I greatly deplore their condition, but for them to wait, since evils are not cured by other evils.
Before this question has been under discussion for a minute comes a name for a time I was really quite unable to decide whether it is the name of the villain in the piece or of the maligned heroine, or a secret society or a gold mine, or a pestilence or a delusion the name of the Banca Commerciale Italiana.
Nevertheless I found discussion ranging about firstly what the Banca Commerciale essentially was, secondly what it might become, thirdly what it might do, and fourthly what, if anything, had to be done to it. It is a novelty to an English mind to find banking thus mixed up with politics, but it is not a novelty in Italy.
He looked at his robust arms and taking the only course which remained to him, he began to row with all his strength toward the Island of Talim. In the meantime, the sun had risen. The banca glided along rapidly. Elias saw some men standing up on the falúa, making signals to him. "Do you know how to manage a banca?" he asked Ibarra. "Yes; why?"
Don Filipo said to him: "Take note that this description corresponds to that of nine-tenths of the natives. Take care that you do not make a mistake!" At last the soldiers returned, saying that they had not been able to discover either a banca, or a man that aroused their suspicion. The sergeant murmured a few indistinct words and then marched off.
Having made arrangements to visit the lake either by starting from Manilla in a large Pasig banca or prow, which although more tedious than driving to the village of Guadaloupe, near Pasig, and then taking the water, is, I think, the better plan of the two, as the river scenery is well worth seeing, and there are no inconveniences such as are inseparable from that of changing conveyances at Guadaloupe, &c.
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