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Mavick's own quarters not the study off the library where he received visitors whom it was necessary to impress had an executive appearance, and were, in the necessary appliances, more like the interior bureau of a board of trade. In fact, the witty brokers who were admitted to its mysteries called it the bucket-shop. Mr.
There was a dinner given in New York to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Washington Irving's birth. I was one of the speakers. In an adjoining room was a company of young and very successful brokers, whose triumphs in the market were the envy of speculative America. While I was speaking they came into the room.
As for children, you stumbled over them at every step, quite weighed down with the heaviness of their joy, and the money burning their pockets; the acrid old brokers and pettifoggers, that you met with a chill on other days, had turned into jolly fathers of families, and lounged laughing along with half a dozen little hands pulling them into candy-stores or toy-shops; all of the churches whose rules permitted them to show their deep rejoicing in a simple way, had covered their cold stone walls with evergreens, and wreaths of glowing fire-berries: the child's angel had touched them too, perhaps, not unwisely.
A bill was offered for laying further restrictions on pawnbrokers and brokers, that they might no longer suck the blood of the poor, and act as the accessaries of theft and robbery, which was canvassed, debated, and made its way through the lower house; but the lords rejected it as a crude scheme, which they could not amend, because it was a money-bill, not cognizable by their house, without engaging in a dispute with the commons.
As he pocketed the cheque he asked for the name of the brokers who were employed to buy the shares. But here Melmotte demurred 'No, my friend, said Melmotte; 'you are only entitled to shares for £600 pounds now. I will see that the thing is put right. So Sir Felix departed with £200 only. Marie had said that she could get £200.
Square games are rarely played in these houses. The victim is generally fleeced. Men who gamble in stocks, curbstone brokers, and others, vainly endeavor to make good a part of their losses at these places. They are simply unsuccessful. Clerks, office-boys, and others, who can spend but a few minutes and lose only a few dollars at a time, are constantly seen in these hells.
"There is a small item bearing on this point, so small as to be hardly worth calling evidence, but just worth noting. In the pocket of the waistcoat taken from the body of Jeffrey I found the stump of a 'Contango' pencil; a pencil that is sold for the use of stock dealers and brokers.
But then, Wall Street is nourished almost exclusively upon differences of opinion. Percival now had accounts with five firms of brokers. "Relpin," he explained to Uncle Peter, "is a foxy boy. He's foxier than a fox.
"I want to catch a train for New York at eight-thirty-five, and hullo, what's this! Rush & Wilder, Brokers and Bankers, Robbed! Thieves enter the office and loot the safe! This is news certainly." "Rush & Wilder!" cried Frank. "Is that the firm you do business with?" "Yes, Frank. They have lost over sixty-five thousand dollars, besides a lot of unregistered bonds. That's a big loss."
She nodded, suffered him to aid her in the descent to the sidewalk, then drew a deep, unsteady breath and gazed around as though awaking from a dream. "It certainly was an impressive sight," he said. "The Government may thank me for a number of heroes. I'm really quite hoarse." She made no comment. "Even a thousand well-fed brokers in uniform are bound to be impressive," he meditated aloud.
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