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He wanted a new life, and the very sight of these objects would remind him of that which he wished to forget. This house was the firm of Mongenod and Company, established in 1816 or 1817, whose reputation for honesty and uprightness had never been questioned in the midst of the commercial depravity which smirched, more or less, all the banking-houses of Paris.
As a matter of fact, this "centralizing" was attempted in May, 1877, in Boston, with the circuits of the Holmes burglar-alarm system, four banking-houses being thus interconnected; while in January of 1878 the Bell telephone central-office system at New Haven, Connecticut, was opened for business, "the first fully equipped commercial telephone exchange ever established for public or general service."
He was on the best terms with the house of Nucingen, to which Roguin had introduced him, and he had promptly become connected with the brothers Keller and with several other great banking-houses. No one knew from whence this youth had derived the immense capital which he handled, but every one attributed his success to his intelligence and his integrity.
These small men who go swearing and loafing about your stores and shops and banking-houses, assailing Christ and the Bible and the Church they do not do the damage. They have no influence. They are vermin that you crush with your foot.
He would come back and talk with Madame Desvarennes about it, because she ought to participate in the large profits which the matter promised. There was no risk. The novelty of the undertaking consisted in the concurrence of the largest banking-houses of France and abroad, which would hinder all competition, and prevent hostility on the part of the great money-handlers.
The fine hand of Eastern banking-houses was detected and their sinister motives noised abroad. "Millions for everybody in the trust, but not one cent for Chicago," was the Inquirer's way of putting it. Certain altruists of the community were by now so aroused that in the destruction of Cowperwood they saw their duty to God, to humanity, and to democracy straight and clear.
"Then within a week, in walked the manager of the Mozambique Hotel he had been stung with the fake International Express money-order same Englishman, too, I believe." "And you have no trace of him?" asked Kennedy eagerly. "We had him under arrest once we thought. A general alarm was sent out, of course, to all the banks and banking-houses. But the man was too clever to turn up in that way again.
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