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Updated: May 9, 2025
The chief adornment of this room, which had evidently been the salon of the appartement before it was converted into a banking-office, was a round table covered with a green cloth, round which stood a few old chairs of black leather with tarnished gilt nails.
Prince Duncan went up-stairs, and paused before a door on which was inscribed: SHARP & KETCHUM BANKERS LOANS NEGOTIATED He opened the door, and found the room furnished in the style of a private banking-office. "Is Mr. Sharp or Mr. Ketchum in?" he inquired of a sharp-faced young clerk, the son, as it turned out, of the senior partner. "Yes, sir, Mr. Sharp is in." "Is he at leisure?
I bless every star that Providence, not seeing good to make me independent, has seen it next good to settle me upon the stable foundation of Leadenhall. Sit down, good B.B., in the banking-office; what! is there not from six to eleven P.M. six days in the week, and is there not all Sunday?
I have said that an English clerk made a part of that small establishment in the dingy banking-office in the Schrannen Platz, and I must say a word or two of Herbert Onslow. In his early career he had not been fortunate.
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