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He has some interest in a stockbroking business; he's very rich besides, and well posted in everything." The other ladies, however, were now going off. "Good-bye, dear madame. I rely upon you for Wednesday." "Yes, to be sure; Wednesday." "Oh, by the way, will you be at that evening party? One doesn't know whom one may meet. If you go, I'll go." "Ah, well! I'll go, I promise you.
"Besides our international relations, and the army, navy, police, and the courts of justice, the community now carries on for itself, in some part or another of these islands, the post-office, telegraphs, carriage of small commodities, coinage, surveys the regulation of the currency and note issue, the provision of weights and measures, the making, sweeping, lighting, and repairing of streets, roads, and bridges, life insurance, the grant of annuities, shipbuilding, stockbroking, banking, farming, and money-lending.
Just as Mr. Pillbody was making arrangements to bring these mines before the public, his stockbroking friend, through whom he had effected the purchase, left for Europe, and it was then discovered that Mr. Pillbody's mines, if they existed at all, were ten feet under a swamp, on property which belonged to somebody else, the title deeds of which had been forged by the adroit operator. Mr.
It's just business. He waited a minute. 'Stockbroking; that's what it is. Yes, it's stockbroking. I want to see a chap who's put me in to a good thing. A perfectly safe thing. No gambling. But one has to see into it, you see. Mitchell wants to see me at once, you see. Do you see? You saw his wire, didn't you? I've explained, haven't I? Aren't you satisfied with my explanation?
Just before ten their motor glided up to the Elliots' green door in Cadogan Place. Max Elliot was the very successful senior partner of an old-established stockbroking firm in the City. This was a fact, so people had to accept it. But acceptance was made difficult by his almost strangely unfinancial appearance and manner. Out of the City he never spoke of the City.
What was her name before she married Colonel Armstrong? why " He soon found out "Fraser." "Wasn't there once a firm, Fraser and Warren, which set up to be some new dodge for establishing women in a city career? Accountancy? Stockbroking? Where did Fraser and Warren have their office? Fifth floor of Midland Insurance office in Chancery Lane. What was that building now called? No. 88-90." Done.
You have no idea how busy we are. 'Ah! then I will not trouble you. But I leave the Grand Babylon to-night. 'Do you? she said. 'Then will your Highness do me the honour of lunching with me today in Father's room? Father will be out he is having a day in the City with some stockbroking persons. 'I shall be charmed, said the Prince, and his face showed that he meant it. Nella drove off.
"We see very little of the stockbroking fellows, as you call them, at the Lawn, papa." "Indeed! I thought Sheldon kept a great deal of company." "O no. He gives a dinner now and then, a gentleman's dinner usually; and poor Mrs. Sheldon is very anxious that it should all go off well, as she says; but I don't think he is a person who cares much for society." "Really, now?"
The solitary farm-house which it had been my whim to examine was the house in which my dear love made her home. It was here, to this untrodden hillside, that my darling had come from the prim modern villa at Bayswater. Ah, what happiness to find her here, far away from all those stockbroking surroundings here, where our hearts expanded beneath the divine influence of Nature!
"What view do you take of the exchange," I asked her, "from stockbroking with its larger income to farming with its smaller?" "Perhaps it was selfish," she answered, "but I am afraid I rather encouraged father. It seems to me mean, making your living out of work that does no good to anyone. I hate the bargaining, but the farming itself I love.
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