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Updated: May 27, 2025
"No apology necessary," said I with the utmost good nature. "I've no personal interest in Textile. My house deals on commission only, you know never on margins for myself. I'm a banker and broker, not a gambler. Some of our customers were alarmed by the news of the big increase, and insisted on bringing suit to stop it. But I'm going to urge them now to let the matter drop."
In respect to the other matter, they had an engagement for ten the next morning at a cafe in the neighbourhood of the Bourse. There were no great difficulties to overcome. They saw a broker named Mueller.
"My dear Leibel," said the marriage broker, deprecatingly shrugging his shoulders and spreading out his palms, "you can't expect perfection!" Nevertheless Leibel persisted in his unreasonable attitude. He accused Sugarman of wasting his time, of making a fool of him. "A fool of you!" echoed the Shadchan, indignantly, "when I give you a chance of a boot and shoe manufacturer's daughter?
Presently, the watchman came up and finding a Christian kneeling on a Muslim and beating him, said to the former, 'What is the matter? 'This fellow tried to snatch off my turban, answered the broker; and the watchman said, 'Get up from him. So he rose, and the watchman went up to the hunchback and finding him dead, exclaimed, 'By Allah, it is a fine thing that a Christian should kill a Muslim! Then he seized the broker and tying his hands behind him, carried him to the house of the prefect of police, where they passed the night; and all the while the broker kept saying, 'O Messiah!
Then he looked round and, seeing the broker calling out in the market with all the merchants around him, said to himself, "I am sure that he is penniless and hath brought hither the damsel Anis al-Jalis for sale;" adding, "O how cooling and grateful is this to my heart!"
"As to her mother, Miss Sarah says she lost her when she was quite young, in a most romantic, though horrible manner" "What!" broke in Daniel, "has nobody taken the trouble to ascertain if all these statements are true?" "I am sure I do not know. This much is certain, that sometimes curious facts leak out. For instance, I have fallen in with Americans who have known a broker Brandon, a Gen.
With a rapid voice, Clarence repeated what he had seen, and requested the broker to accompany him to Talbot's house, or at least to lend him his pistols. "He shall do no such thing," cried Mrs. Copperas. "Come here, Mr. C., and shut the door directly." "Stop, my love," said the stock-jobber, "stop a moment."
Montgomery's passions were fierce; his wants were pressing; he was miserably poor; and, if he could not speedily force himself into a lucrative office, he would be in danger of rotting in a gaol. Since his services were not likely to be bought by William, they must be offered to James. A broker was easily found. Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.
And where was Whittemore, the young broker whose hopes had fallen with his own financial ruin; and Fordney, who would have cut off ten years of his life for her and half-a-dozen others he might name? Her heart! Steele laughed softly as he lifted the letter so that the sweet perfume of it came to him more strongly. How she had tempted him for a time!
He is an exchange broker, and made two hundred thousand dollars last year in this quick way: Pretending to have realized large profits in stock gambling, he succeeded in inspiring such confidence in the president of one of our most respectable banks, where he kept his account, that his checks were indiscriminately certified by that officer.
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