Undercurrents of Wall-Street: A Romance of BusinessG.P. Putnam, 1862 - 428 páginas |
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... tell you what it is , Parkinson , there is no necessity for a man's failing - none whatever . Just look at me , now ! " At that moment I was in a very bitter mood , and I am afraid I cursed Russell in my heart . I do not know , but I ...
... tell you what it is , Parkinson , there is no necessity for a man's failing - none whatever . Just look at me , now ! " At that moment I was in a very bitter mood , and I am afraid I cursed Russell in my heart . I do not know , but I ...
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... tell you what we must , in my opinion , come to . " Rollins would not listen to the idea , and we shook hands at the door of our warehouse , our routes home- ward lying in different directions , with the understanding that we should ...
... tell you what we must , in my opinion , come to . " Rollins would not listen to the idea , and we shook hands at the door of our warehouse , our routes home- ward lying in different directions , with the understanding that we should ...
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... tell me . " I raised myself quietly from the seat , took her hand in both of mine , and with something of my old courage return- ing , I said , not in a tone dispirited , but with a degree of self - reliance , yet kindly and almost ...
... tell me . " I raised myself quietly from the seat , took her hand in both of mine , and with something of my old courage return- ing , I said , not in a tone dispirited , but with a degree of self - reliance , yet kindly and almost ...
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... tell you , his house is firm as a rock - could lose seventy - five thousand dollars and not feel it . I happen to have confidential means of knowing they are worth a quarter of a million . " In my intercourse with business men on ...
... tell you , his house is firm as a rock - could lose seventy - five thousand dollars and not feel it . I happen to have confidential means of knowing they are worth a quarter of a million . " In my intercourse with business men on ...
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... tell what is true about myself , and in so doing , I shall not spare you . Now to all - the fair woman , the sleek man of wealth , the banker , the broker - I proclaim the fact , that there is nothing which should make the posi- tion of ...
... tell what is true about myself , and in so doing , I shall not spare you . Now to all - the fair woman , the sleek man of wealth , the banker , the broker - I proclaim the fact , that there is nothing which should make the posi- tion of ...
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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...