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Denah came to tea drinking, she and her lately-wed husband, the bashful son of a well-to-do shipowner.
The contract, moreover, was really one of insurance for the shipowner, and contracts of insurance were clearly legitimate. In any event the legitimacy of loans on bottomry was not questioned before the sixteenth century. Concluding Remarks on Usury.
"But did you think I would require of you the sacrifice of leaving London now?" "It is my pleasure as well as my duty, captain." "No," he said, "I am not like that. Yesterday I went to the city to see a shipowner whose acquaintance I made when he was a master in the West India trade. He has had some reason to know that I can handle a ship. Never mind what.
"Very beautiful, to me," assented the shipowner. "I think I should have loved her very much." "How would you like to have a new mother?" Olaf thought this over in silence for some time. "It depends," he ventured at length. "Depends on what?" "I don't know. I must see her. Then I could tell you." "You care for the idea?" "I must see her first." "Yes, that's right.
Oh father, darling," she went on impulsively, tightening her grasp, "you will never know how brave he was, how enduring, how he risked all for me and cheered me to the end, even though the end seemed to be the grave." "I think I am beginning to understand now," answered the shipowner, averting his eyes lest Iris should see the tears in them.
Shipowner Monsen was behind the whole affair, together with the brewer from the mainland, who had taken the hotel over in payment of outstanding debts." "But how did big folks like that manage to smell you out?" Holm scratched his head; he didn't understand the whole affair. "Oh, they'd heard of the ten thousand, of course, which I'd inherited from my father.
Simeon Brown was a thriving shipowner of Newport, who lived in a large house, owned several negro-servants and a span of horses, and affected some state and style in his worldly appearance. A passion for metaphysical Orthodoxy had drawn Simeon to the congregation of Dr. H., and his wife of course stood by right in a high place there.
Charles Hazlit, Esquire, was a merchant and a shipowner, a landed proprietor, a manager of banks, a member of numerous boards and committees, a guardian of the poor, a volunteer colonel, and a good-humoured man on the whole, but purse-proud and pompous. He was also the father of Aileen. His blooming daughter sat beside him at a table, on which lay a small, peculiar, box.
The shipowner, M. Morrel, confirmed young Dantès in the command, and, overjoyed, he hastened to his father, and then to the village of the Catalans, near Marseilles, where the dark-eyed Mercédès, his betrothed, impatiently awaited him. But his good fortune excited envy.
Shipowner Monsen was behind the whole affair, together with the brewer from the mainland, who had taken the hotel over in payment of outstanding debts." "But how did big folks like that manage to smell you out?" Holm scratched his head; he didn't understand the whole affair. "Oh, they'd heard of the ten thousand, of course, which I'd inherited from my father.
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