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It was not possible to escape from both. She found herself weighing the chances of each of them, their nearness to disaster. "Well," she said, "great fortunes even like yours are not above the chances of the money-markets. Your fortune, or a great part of it, might go. What would happen to you then? You would be a pauper." Jeanne smiled.
All the telephones were at once disconnected here and connected with my secretaries' room. I can sit here at this table and shake the money-markets of the world. I can send stocks up or down at my will. I can ruin if I like, or I can enrich.
On the rare occasions that they met she was always ready to turn aside with half-contemptuous dislike on her proud face, and amuse herself with the tamest of her worshippers rather than hold any intercourse with the fabulous monster of the money-markets. Certainly there was a surprise in store for the world in which she moved.
Take the case at its worst; if your uncle should die, a seal would be put upon all his effects, and nothing in the world could stop those documents becoming public property. You can't realize what that would mean to us. It would mean ruin not only to ourselves, but to hundreds of others. It would mean a panic in all the money-markets of the world.
'Yes, I can see that, Sidwell replied, thoughtfully. 'And perhaps it also represents the triumphant forces of our time. He looked keenly at her, with a smile of delight. 'That also! The power which centres in the world's money-markets plutocracy. In conversing with Sidwell, he had never before found an opportunity of uttering his vehement prejudices.
It is here that they come from all quarters of the world the ladies who charm away our hearts," he added, bowing to mademoiselle, "the financiers whose word can shake the money-markets of the world, and the politicians who unbend, perhaps, just a little in the sunshine here, however cold and inflexible they may be under their own austere skies. For the last time, then to Monte Carlo!
The money-markets of the world are ramparts that few men care to storm, but, if the independent and the intelligent do not withstand this semitization of our institutions, the ignorant and the degraded will one day take the matter into their own hands, as they have done before, and as they do to this day in some parts of Russia.
Gordon Jones continued earnestly, "not for his own sake but for ours. When the time comes, later on, it may be possible for us to deal with him. To-day, no words of mine could explain to you his exact utility. He has a finger upon the money-markets of the world. He has wealth, great wealth, and commands great wealth in every city.
It did him good to be able to answer fervently, "None whatever, only find her!" The morning papers were full of the news. Phineas Duge had landed in London! The Stock Exchange was fluttered. Those whose hands were upon the money-markets of the world paused to turn their heads towards the hotel where he had taken a suite of rooms.
I, who have seen Society, the modern Juggernaut, rolling its great wheels recklessly over the hopes and joys and confidences of thousands of human beings I, who know that even kings, who should be above dishonesty, are tainted by their secret speculations in the money-markets of the world, surely I may be permitted to rejoice for my few remaining days in the finding of two truthful and simple souls, who have no motive for their kindness to me, who see nothing in me but age, feebleness and poverty, and whom I have perhaps been the means, through God's guidance, of bringing together.
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