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Updated: October 18, 2025
These poor fishermen are not rich, as I have said; a dollar looks to them as big as a dinner-plate to us, and a moderately flush Wall-Street man might buy out the whole Cape and not overdraw his bank-account. Also, they have but little book-learning among them, reading chiefly their Bible, Bowditch, and Nautical Almanac, and leaving theology mostly to the parson, on shore, who is paid for it.
Eating his meals under his own roof; walking down Broadway to Wall-Street, every morning, at nine o'clock, and back again every afternoon at three; still the echo of Mr. Taylor's thoughts and words was 'dollars, 'stocks, and 'lots' lots, 'stocks, and 'dollars. He had a value for everything in dollars his jokes turned upon stocks and his dreams were filled with lots.
Uncle Abijah Brewster, the father of this Elkanah, was an old Banker, which signifies here, not a Wall-Street broker-man, but a Grand-Bank fisherman.
If he had seen Wall-Street brokers and bankers last week trying to get rid of stocks and bonds, he could not of course have supposed that they were poor or feared poverty; he would have judged from their physical activity that they were in perfect health, so that he would have been driven to the conclusion that some barbarian host, commanded by Sitting Bull or Red Cloud, was entering the city, and was breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the owners of personal property.
Immediately then the thought came sweeping across me, what miserable friendlessness and loneliness are here revealed! His poverty is great; but his solitude, how horrible! Think of it. Of a Sunday, Wall-street is deserted as Petra; and every night of every day it is an emptiness.
Having faith in his own attainments, however, the "Wall-street man" this was the liberal interpretation put by Jim upon his position as office-boy to brother Edward deposited his pail and net upon the ground, and himself in a like humble position beside his fellow-servant and chum. He might be learned, but he was not proud by reason thereof.
Melvin concerning the particulars of the agreement I want drawn and signed in the transaction that is to take place between you and Roderick Duncan, in which I am, personally, so deeply concerned, in which I am to figure as the collateral security." The old man stared at his daughter, with an expression that had made many a Wall-street financier turn pale with apprehension.
Ah! how often it happened after that. I blush again to think how much I pained him, and how silently he bore it all. The last days of July were very busy ones in the Wall-street office, and Richard did not give himself a holiday, till one Saturday, much to be remembered, the very last day of the month.
But the end of the first ninety days in Wall-Street, brought an accession of several thousands, and the brilliant promise of so many more, that this plan was enlarged several inches each way.
"Oh yes! the whole sky at the southeast is glowing from the flames the largest fire, they say, that has ever been known in the city but it is far enough from us down in Wall-street and who can think of fires with such joy before them? Only think, Mary, with Philip's fortune and Philip's taste, what an establishment I shall have." "And what a mother in dear, good Mrs. Oswald!"
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