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Arthur Lovell listened, with a strange expression upon his face. If Henry Dunbar was pale, Henry Dunbar's legal adviser was still more so. The jurymen stared aghast at the coroner, as if they had been awe-stricken by his impertinence towards the chief partner of the great banking-house of Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby.
I went to H 's banking-house to draw the money my solicitor had sent me, and when they inquired whether I wanted checks or bills of exchange, I asked for the latter, because, as I said, in time of war the Government might bring in a moratorium. "What," they laughed, "the Napoleonic Government bring in moratorium? Tête carrée!" The latter was meant as a compliment for me.
The date thanks to my dear parents, no dictionary that ever was written can be more particular than I am about dates was Friday, June 30th, 1848. Early on that memorable day, our gifted Mr. Godfrey happened to be cashing a cheque at a banking-house in Lombard Street.
His accomplice, the man who had actually manufactured the fictitious signatures, was the younger brother of Sampson Wilmot, who had been a few months prior to that time engaged as messenger in the banking-house a young fellow of nineteen, little better than a lad; a reckless boy, easily influenced by the dashing soldier who had need of his services.
A Mistake that might have been Unfortunate. The People of Booneville. Visiting an Official. Banking-House Loyalty. Preparations for a Campaign. Daybreak on the 17th found us slowly moving up the river toward Booneville. General Lyon sat forward of the steamer's cabin, closely scanning both banks of the stream.
"You are hereby empowered to draw for any sum that you may be in want of, not exceeding L5000. upon the Lords of His Majesty's Treasury, or upon such mercantile banking-house in London as you may fix upon. "I am, &c. "To Mungo Park, Esq. &c. &c. &c." The preparations for the expedition being now entirely completed, Park, together with Mr. Anderson and Mr.
Following still the popular legend, we find him in the autumn of 1515 a ragged stripling at the door of Frescobaldi's banking-house in Florence, begging for help. Frescobaldi had an establishment in London, with a large connection there; and seeing an English face, and seemingly an honest one, he asked the boy who and what he was.
Fauntleroy at the banking-house, they had been informed that he was not there; and, after leaving a message for him, they had gone into the City to make an appointment with their stockbroker for a future day, when their fellow-trustee might be able to attend.
You will receive annually a sufficient sum from a certain banking-house which will supply all your wants. Have our two trusty friends been apprised?" "Yes; they await me hourly." "So soon as you are beyond the French boundary you may communicate with me in the way we have agreed upon. Until I hear from you I shall be in a terror of anxiety.
Letters had been found on him which the accusation regarded as proofs of a plot concocted between Maubel and the agents of Pitt, but which were in fact only letters written to the émigré by a banking-house in London which he had entrusted with certain funds. Maubel, who was young and good-looking, seemed to be mainly occupied in affairs of gallantry.
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