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He seized Panine violently by the arm, and said: "Gently, Prince; whatever insults you heap upon me must be shared by you. You are my partner." "Scoundrel!" yelled Panine, exasperated at being held by Herzog. "Personalities," said the financier, in a jesting tone. "Then I take my leave!" And loosing his hold of the Prince, he went toward the door.
Then he turned to the nursery governess with: "Are you quite satisfied with Raoul, Mademoiselle Bertha?" Mademoiselle Bertha became as red as a peony at being addressed, as if the question were scarcely comme il faut, and replied by a little imbecile snigger, which seemed fully to satisfy M. Godefroy's curiosity about his son's conduct. "It's fine to-day," said the financier, "but cold.
It was this comprehensive survey which warranted some of the large advances they made to seemingly insolvent firms which afterwards grew to be the most prosperous in the Fatherland. The methods thus practised at home were adhered to in all those foreign countries which the German financier, manufacturer or trader selected for his field of operations.
That a financier or a magistrate should decline a bribe or interfere with the private sale of places, which were after all objects of merchandise, was to him incomprehensible.
I'm not a swindler; I'm a financier." Burke sneered scornfully. "Well," he roared, "you'll never pull another one on me. You can gamble on that!" Mary permitted herself to laugh mockingly in the face of the badgered official. "Thank you for telling me," she said, graciously.
As editor of the Risorgimento he fought his one duel; a scandalous attack on the personal honesty of the writers was made by a Jewish financier in an obscure Nizzard sheet; an encounter with pistols followed in which no one was hurt, but both sides seemed to have aimed in earnest.
Hamilton Burton's lights burned late that night in his office, and up to them many baleful glances turned from the sidewalks below. The financier told himself that he was the same man that he had been, safeguarded by his star; but as he worked he found himself instinctively turning to the chair where Carl Bristoll should be and where now sat a more inept subordinate.
He's never had any very great crisis to face, you know. They say he's a good financier. . . . You look disappointed." "I hadn't expected him to look like that," said the prelate, musing. "Why not?" "Well, he seems to have an extraordinary position in the world. I should have expected more of a " "More of a great man? Monsignor, don't you think that the Average Man makes the best ruler?"
His remedy, in brief, was a convention of the States for the purpose of creating a Federal Constitution, the distributing of the powers of government into separate departments, with Presidents of War, Marine, and Trade, a secretary of Foreign Affairs, and a Financier, defining their prerogatives; the States to have no privileges beyond an internal police for the protection of the property and the rights of individuals, and to raise money by internal taxes; the army to be recruited on a permanent establishment.
Havre wanted the finance department as well, but Ybarra, who was a financier, thought the public funds in his hands would be in a perilous condition, inasmuch as he was provinces was accounted the most covetous man in all the provinces.
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