Undercurrents of Wall-Street: A Romance of BusinessG.P. Putnam, 1862 - 428 páginas |
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... asked except as to general reputation . The agencies , with the best intent , doubtless , busy themselves with picking up circumstances . A merchant rushes in and reads the record ; he thus goes to an ex - parte tribunal , where ...
... asked except as to general reputation . The agencies , with the best intent , doubtless , busy themselves with picking up circumstances . A merchant rushes in and reads the record ; he thus goes to an ex - parte tribunal , where ...
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... asked some pertinent questions , and finally adjusting his spectacles with much precision , he took the document respecting the composition , and quietly affixed the name of his firm thereto , and handed it back to me . Then he said ...
... asked some pertinent questions , and finally adjusting his spectacles with much precision , he took the document respecting the composition , and quietly affixed the name of his firm thereto , and handed it back to me . Then he said ...
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... asked myself as I walked along the street after leaving Oilnut's office . I had taken my first lesson in misanthropy : more was to follow . Could this be the Oilnut who had such a nice daughter ; who was a leading patron of the opera ...
... asked myself as I walked along the street after leaving Oilnut's office . I had taken my first lesson in misanthropy : more was to follow . Could this be the Oilnut who had such a nice daughter ; who was a leading patron of the opera ...
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... asked an extension , or have sought to effect a compromise , you will appreciate my situation and will follow me in this narrative with a degree of interest ; and so will you , lady , who are the wife , mother or sister of some such one ...
... asked an extension , or have sought to effect a compromise , you will appreciate my situation and will follow me in this narrative with a degree of interest ; and so will you , lady , who are the wife , mother or sister of some such one ...
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... asked . " That is what I am coming to . He can do nothing except give you a great deal of annoyance , by which he hopes to wear you out and compel payment of his claim , He has doubtless something in view in making this demand . As to ...
... asked . " That is what I am coming to . He can do nothing except give you a great deal of annoyance , by which he hopes to wear you out and compel payment of his claim , He has doubtless something in view in making this demand . As to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance affairs Alice Alworthy asked bank began better bills Brest Broadway broker Bulldog called carriage cash cent CHAPTER Charles E cholera Company counting-room creditors dear debts Devine Downer endeavored exclaimed eyes feel felt fifty dollars five Florence fortune furniture girl give Goulding hand happy Harley heart Hitchcock hope hundred dollars interest kinson knew Lake Superior leave live looked Matilda matter ment Mercantile Agency merchant morning never Norwood nuendoes numbers Oilnut Old Sol papa paper Parkinson PAWNBROKER perfect drug perhaps person pleasant poor reader ready received replevin replied rich Robert Warren Rollins sand dollars seemed sell stood street sure tell thing Thomas Stevenson thought thousand dollars tion told took transaction turned waiting walked Wall-street wife young
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Página 393 - The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity ; but a wounded spirit who can bear ? 15 The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge ; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Página 218 - And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself.
Página 80 - To do to others as I would That they should do to me, Will make me honest, kind, and good, As children ought to be.
Página 129 - All sheep to the number of ten, with their fleeces and the yarn or cloth manufactured from the same...
Página 130 - All necessary wearing apparel, beds, bedsteads and bedding for such person and his family ; arms and accoutrements required by law to be kept by such person ; necessary cooking utensils ; one table ; six chairs ; six knives and forks ; six plates ; six teacups and saucers : one...
Página 261 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 200 - What is the chief end of man ?" By the light he lives and works by, how would he answer it ? Now let us have an introduction to these people with fortunes and habits so different. Put the novelists and romancewriters aside. We do not want any hot-house developments, any big, horrid villains, any sweet, charming bread-andbutter saints. Away with caricatures and exaggerations...
Página 130 - All necessary wearing apparel, beds, bedsteads, and bedding, for such person and his family. Arms and accoutrements, required by law to be kept by such person. Necessary cooking utensils, one table, six chairs, six knives and forks, six plates, six tea-cups and saucers, one sugar-dish, one milk-pot, one tea-pot and six spoons, one crane and its appendages, one pair of andirons and a shovel and tongs...
Página 237 - Give the gentleman a chair, my daughter," said the sick woman, for although I had shaken the snow from my hat and coat, I was still standing. The daughter obeyed, and I sat down. Meanwhile I had glanced about the room and taken a closer look at its inmates. The appearance was that of biting poverty without squalidness or misery. The girl was very handsome and well formed, but exhibited in her demeanor no softness — indeed, little that was feminine. When I sat down, she seated herself at the window...
Página 145 - There is another class equally, nay, more entitled to our sympathies. It is the class who from day to day, and week to week, and month to month...