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It's that stock-broker's dog at Flam Cottage he's bitten you, I'm sure of it. You're not fit to manage your own property now; and I should only be acting the part of a good wife if I were to call in the mad- doctors. "Well, I shall never know rest any more now. There won't be a soul knock at the door after this that I sha'n't think it's the man coming to take possession.
There is a possibility he may have deposited it at his banker's or his stock-broker's, though that is not probable." "It is curious," remarked Mrs. Liddell, feeling she must say something. "Pray," resumed Newton, addressing Katherine, "have you ever seen him tearing up or burning papers?" She thought for a moment, and then said quietly, "No, I never have."
It seems of no consequence to her whether she shall say that a stone is overgrown with moss or with lichen, that a building is of sandstone or of granite, that Meliboeus once forgot to put on his cravat or that he always appears without it; that everybody says so, or that one stock-broker's wife said so yesterday; that Philemon praised Euphemia up to the skies, or that he denied knowing any particular evil of her.
There were hints too that fell indefinably now and then about the Ellwell affairs, the stock-broker's poor health, the perpetual disappointments that discouraged him. His wife had relapsed into the Four Corner's habit of regarding incapacity and folly as mere misfortune. It irritated him to realize all this sentimental pity over a blackguard.
In any case his golden star was no longer in the ascendant. Paul de Gery knew this through Joyeuse, who was now a stock-broker's accountant and well up in the doings on the Bourse. What troubled him most, however, was the Nabob's singular agitation, his need of constant distraction which had succeeded his former splendid calm of strength and security, the loss, too, of his southern sobriety.
"An interview in this office with Mrs. Braham." The lawyer winced, but went on his guard again directly. "Client of ours?" "Yes, sir." "Braham? Braham?" said the lawyer, affecting to search the caverns of professional memory. "Stock-broker's wife." "Where do they live?" "What! don't you know? Place of business Threadneedle Street. Place of bigamy Portman Square."
"Nothing crooked about them, of course. You see, a stock-broker's life is a nerve-racking, rather exciting one, and " "And 'Bije and his chums were excited, too, hey? All right, you needn't go any further. He was a good husband while his wife lived, wa'n't he?" "Yes. Frankly, Captain Warren, so far as I know, your brother's personal habits were good. There was nothing against his character."
"Watson," said he, "if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you." Adventure III. The Stock-Broker's Clerk Shortly after my marriage I had bought a connection in the Paddington district. Old Mr.
And then suddenly it struck me that what was dark to me might be very light to Mr. Sherlock Holmes. I had just time to get up to town by the night train to see him this morning, and to bring you both back with me to Birmingham." There was a pause after the stock-broker's clerk had concluded his surprising experience.
He soon learned that it was only in financial transactions that large fortunes were to be rapidly made. He left the Rue du Sentier, and found a place at a stock-broker's. His keen scent for speculation served him admirably. After the lapse of a few years he had charge of the business.
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