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Hearings were given in all these places to hundreds of citizens: commercial bodies, shipbuilders, shipowners, shipping merchants, merchants in general trade, manufacturers, bankers, lawyers, editors, doctrinaires. The majority reported a bill.
The game of faro is now in progress at the green table. He gradually withdrew himself from the noisy companions of his younger years, and soon had the gratification to behold bankers, brokers, merchants, and men belonging to the wealthy classes flock to his establishment.
It's like changing one's bankers after fifty: one doesn't do that. That's why Susie has been kept for me, as you seem to keep people in your wonderful country, in lavender and pink paper coming back at last as straight as out of a fairy-tale and with you as an attendant fairy."
When you or your family are able to make this restitution, pay the sum you owe into the hands of Messrs. Mongenod and Company, bankers. May God forgive you. Five crosses formed the mysterious signature of this letter, which Godefroid returned to the baron. "The five crosses are there," he said as if to himself.
'Yes, said he, 'I don't go into society now; I am living among the bankers. You know why?" added the Marquis, with a meaning smile. "No," said the Duke. "He is smitten with that little Mme Keller, Gondreville's daughter; she is only lately married, and has a great vogue, they say, in that set." "Well, Antoinette does not find time heavy on her hands, it seems," remarked the Vidame.
Even the officers of the Washington Trust Company, who were of indubitable respectability and prominence in their own community, everything that bankers should be, had neither mental nor spiritual elevation, and coarsely pigeonholed their ideas about life as they had done with Adelle.
"If this is only a newspaper scare, as we think, I don't see why it should affect the market," she murmured mildly. "Surely those big bankers in New York and Boston have some way of knowing rumour from fact." "Give me some coffee, please," said her husband testily. "I don't have to explain the market, I've only got to take advantage of it."
Long ago, I well remember, your generals fought for Liberty, slept on straw, in barns, like simple soldiers; they were men of might and terror; now they must have their sofas; they are more noble than our nobles and richer than our bankers. So it comes to pass that war, once so grand once an art, a sacrifice once devotion to one's country has become a trade, for sale at more than one market.
Cowan could find it convenient that day to give Harvey D. Whipple a few moments of his time. Dave's business life had hitherto not included any contact with bankers; he had simply never been in a bank. The message left him not a little disturbed. The messenger, Julius Farrow, a bookkeeper, could answer no questions.
To-day I took the first active steps towards the building of the third house, when immediately afterwards I was informed by letter that a lady in London, an entire stranger to me, had ordered her bankers to send me three hundred pounds for the support of the orphans. I was also further informed in the evening that in two weeks eight hundred pounds shall be paid to me for the work of the Lord.
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