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Updated: June 2, 2025
"Well, miss, early the next morning and I can tell you I didn't sleep much that night everything was ready for me to go down, and two of the crew who had done that sort of thing before were detailed to attend to the air-pumps and all the other business. The stock-broker he was like a bee on a window-pane; he was buzzing, and kicking, and bumping his head trying to find out what we expected to do.
"'And how about the stock-broker? said I. 'Going to let him in the company? "'No, sir, said the captain, bringing his fist down on the table. 'Whatever else happens, he is to be kept out. "This was a very fine plan, but it didn't altogether suit me. I didn't want to sail away from that spot and perhaps never see those two ships again.
"Well, I er I had a little to do with the organization," stammered the former teacher. "You are a regular stock-broker, I presume, Mr. Haskers." "Yes, that is my business. But I don't deal in ordinary stocks I handle only those which are gilt-edged and big money makers," added Job Haskers, with a flourish. "Been following the business for some years, I presume." "About fifteen, all told.
You might be going to marry a stock-broker instead of a journalist." "I'm going to marry a very rich man for me." "For you, darling? A devilish poor one, I'm afraid." "Oh don't! We've said enough about that." "Yes, but I haven't told you everything. Do you know, I might have been fairly well off by now, if I'd only chosen." Now there was no need whatever for him to make that revelation.
And when the stock-broker was taking a nap, for he was clean tired out poking about and asking questions and trying to find out what he might get out of the business if he helped to save the brig, the captain and I, with a few men, quietly let down into the water the aft hatch, one of those big doors they cover the hatchways with, and when that was resting on the water it made a very good raft for one man.
There had been just then some surprising falls and rises in foreign securities, and the shrewd lawyer divined at once that the stock-broker had been doing business on his own account, and got pinched; so he said, "My dear madam, I suspect it is business on the Exchange; he will get over that, but there is something that is immediately pressing," and he then gave her Monckton's message.
You are squeezed, hampered, harnessed in your ball accoutrement: you count your steps as you walk, you look around, you observe, you contemplate talking business on neutral ground with a stock-broker, a notary or a banker, to whom you would not like to give an advantage over you by calling at their house.
Perhaps they were going to send her to fashionable relatives in the East, where she would unwittingly become the rival of her beautiful but cold-hearted cousin for the hand of a rich young stock-broker, and be ill-treated and long for the old miners who would get word of it and buy some fine clothes from Joe Buy or Sell, and go East to the consternation of the rich relatives and see that their little mountain flower was treated right.
Though "my son Jack" be a boisterous big rogue, on 'Change, and off it let not mine own honest stock-broker put that hat upon his head, in the mono-mania that it fits him, because he may heretofore have been both bull and bear; and as for any other heroes yet to come upon this scene, to enact the tragedy or comedy of Heart "Know all men by these presents," your humble servant's will is to smite bad principles, not offending persons; to crusade against evil manners, not his guilty fellow-men.
"As survivals only. They are poetic but not modern. We have the passions of the divorce-court and the Stock Exchange. They are modern, if you like, but not strikingly poetic." "Well even a stock-broker if you insist on stockbrokers " "I don't. Take the people take the women I know, the women you know. Is there honestly, is there any poetry in them?" "There is heaps.
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