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To the office and did much business, in the evening to Westminster and White Hall about business and among other things met Sir G. Downing on White Hall bridge, and there walked half an hour, talking of the success of the late new Act; and indeed it is very much, that that hath stood really in the room of L800,000 now since Christmas, being itself but L1,250,000.
I will pay Sparks, too, out of what I have in my bureau; and the timber-merchant can pay his debt into my London banker's. LOSELY. 'DO you mean that you have enough for both these bills actually in the house? GUNSTON. 'Certainly, in the bureau in my study. I don't know how much I've got. It may be L1,500 it may be L1,700.
Years ago he picked up under London Bridge a case of watches valued at L1,500. He was only paid for the "job," as the loss was known and it was not a chance find. Another and more sportsmanlike incident was an "angling competition," among himself and others in that line, for some cases of rings which a Jew, who became suddenly insane, threw into the river off a steamer.
Not come to any resolution at the Parliament to-day about the manner of raising this L1,800,000. 17th. Up, and busy about public and private business all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner, alone with my brother, with whom I had now the first private talke I have had, and find he hath preached but twice in his life.
Thus the amount collected by the "regie" was not sufficient to provide for the service of the ever increasing bonded debt and in 1897 there was another default. The old remedy of a new bond issue was to be tried again. The San Domingo Improvement Company undertook to float the eighth bond issue of L2,736,750 in bonds at 2-3/4 per cent and L1,500,000 in bonds at four per cent.
'I wouldn't have my name on a bill in such a man's hands on any account, said Alaric. 'Well, I don't like it myself, said Undy; 'but what the deuce am I to do? I might as well go to Tillietudlem without my head as without money. 'I thought you'd kept a lot of the Mary Janes, said Alaric. 'So I had, but they're gone now. I tell you I've managed L1,000 myself.
Like you, my dear Lionel, he had not moral courage to say 'No. Your father, I am certain, meant to repay him; your father never in cold blood meant to defraud any human being; but your father gambled! A debt of honour at piquet preceded the claim of a bill- discounter. The L1,200 were forestalled your father was penniless. The money-lender came upon Willy.
Justice Charles, it was granted and Wilde was set free in his own recognizance of L2,500 with two other sureties for L1,250 each. It spoke volumes for the charm and fascination of the man that people were found to undertake this onerous responsibility. Their names deserve to be recorded; one was Lord Douglas of Hawick, the other a clergyman, the Rev. Stewart Headlam.
Thence with Sir G. Carteret to my Lord Treasurer, and by and by come Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, and anon we come to my Lord, and there did lay open the expence for the six months past, and an estimate of the seven months to come, to November next: the first arising to above L500,000, and the latter will, as we judge, come to above L1,000,000.
Some time later Barnum was offered L1,200, or $6,000, for the copyright of his lecture; the offer was, however, refused. The morning after the lecture in Manchester a gentleman named John Fish called at the hotel where Barnum was staying. He said that he had attended the lecture the evening before, and added that he was pretty well acquainted with the lecturer, having read his autobiography.
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