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The threat suggested by Steinwitz' last words was veiled but hardly to be mistaken. It certainly seemed to Gorman that he was to be watched by some one on the island, his life spied on, his actions reported to this perfectly absurd German shipowner; by him, no doubt, again reported to the Emperor. The thing seemed almost too good to be true.
The contrast between the broad frame of the shipowner and the delicate, nervous, under-sized physique of his boy was striking in its irony. Here was the strong man carving out an empire for his descendants, and here was his only son, the inheritor-to-be.
Every American shipowner felt the difference, and remembered it. With Spain the United States was less successful. Jay, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, undertook negotiations through Diego Gardoqui, a Spaniard who, during the Revolution, had furnished many cargoes of supplies. He found that country sharply dissatisfied over the boundary assigned to the United States.
Only two men were satisfied, and these were the two who marched in the vanguard. "Where am I?" demanded a wealthy shipowner of Rembrandt as the canvas was scanned in a vain search for his proud features. "You see the palace there in the picture, do you not?" asked the artist petulantly. "Yes, I see that," was the answer. "Well, you are behind that palace."
Whereupon the burly old shipowner frowned and puffed. Constance, he said, had plunged into these new spangle, candle and high singing services; was all for symbols, harps, effigies, what not. Lady Wathin's countenance froze in hearing of it. She led Mr.
Tom Swiggs, then, the restored man, bows before the simple goodness of the daughter of the old Antiquary. Mr. Trueman, the shipowner, gave Tom employment, and has proved a friend to him. Tom, in turn, has so far gained his confidence and respect that Mr. Trueman contemplates sending him to London, on board one of his ships.
"I bequeath to Maximilian Morrel, captain of Spahis, and son of my former patron, Pierre Morrel, shipowner at Marseilles, the sum of twenty millions, a part of which may be offered to his sister Julia and brother-in-law Emmanuel, if he does not fear this increase of fortune may mar their happiness.
Pelle did not really want to go on searching, but he could not very well leave off before the other. "Well, well!" said the shipowner at last, "you may as well whistle for those twenty-five ore. But what a booby you are!" And he moved on, and Pelle looked after him for a long while before putting his hand into his own pocket.
He also told us that the Sheikh of Aghadez had not yet returned from his pilgrimage to Mekka. The motions of all these desert magnates are circulated from mouth to mouth as assiduously as those of our Mayfair fashionables. Among our visitors was Haj Mohammed El-Saeedy, the owner of our camels. His social position answers to that of an English shipowner.
I don't think he had so profound a feeling for bankers. Not quite so downright as Lord Leverhulme in stating his opinion of bankers, Lord Inverforth nevertheless regards them on the whole as lacking in courage and imagination. He said to himself on his banker's stool, "I will learn all I can, but I won't stay here; I'll be a shipowner." In his twentieth year he bought a sailing ship.
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