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...rstood them, would have made any businesslike book-keeping ungracious. The bankers sub- mitted the corroborating account of securities, and he found h... ...ttle inn. And then he negotiated a satisfying meal, with beef-steak as its central fact, and stipulated for a fire in his bedroom. The landlord was a ... ...ng between them through- out a fitful and lengthy exploration of north and central Italy. She could not understand his disgust with the mediaeval colo... ...itself indolently into three shining branches so as to make islands of the central portion of the place. And on this river swarmed for ever a vast flo...

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...th enjoying the con- trast with the heat, glare, and noise of the day. The central one was a tall, slender lady, with a light shawl hung round her sho... ..., my dear. It was more than he had in the bank, and Uncle Regie thinks the bankers will undertake part of the 172 The Two Sides of the Shield loss if...

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...lois ters, where the camel and horse caravans put up on their return from Central Asia. Here were all manner of Northern folk, tending tethered ponie... ...rivals. All castes and kinds of men move here. Look! Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers, bar bers and bunnias, pilgrims and potters–all the w...

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... of the depart- ment—”a waste of time,” he remarked. Sometimes his brother bankers with whom he had dealings kept him to breakfast or dinner; and he w... ...ne of those enormous broad-brimmed hats which are worn by the peasantry of central France, and in so doing displayed a bald but splendid forehead such...

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...ieve her sufferings. Is it your opinion that men’s acts proceed from one central and unchanging and inalterable impulse, or from a variety of impuls... ...bunco steerers, misers, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, naturalists, claimants, impostors, chemis...

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...walk from the pavilion to the pheasantry, had turned the large hall of the central building into a stable,—a hall with panelled ceiling, and in the ce... ...ven- erable Abbe Gregoire, became a hero. For him, as for certain Parisian bankers, politics spread a mantle of popularity over his shameful dishonest... ..., well-known to the gov- erning powers, is doubtless diminishing; but what central- ization (against which every one declaims, as it is the fashion in... ... in France to declaim against all things good and useful and strong),—what centralization cannot touch, the Power against which it will forever fling ... ...act that local interests supersede all ques- tions of public interest; the centralized will of Paris is fre- quently overthrown in the provinces, the ...

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...4 wheelwright’s, and a Young Men’s Mutual Improvement and Discussion Society (in a loft): the whole forming a back lane. No audacious hand had plucked... ...way upon my beat, noting how oddly characteristic neighbourhoods are divided from one another, hereabout, as though by an invisible line across the wa... ...er yellow arms were naught but bone and parchment. Slight changes steal over her; for there is a shadowy suggestion of human skin on them now. The Str...

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...k at Helen’s feet she went on turning the pages and reading biographies of bankers, writers, clergymen, sailors, surgeons, judges, professors, states-... ...seemed inclined to sit down, but they collected in little groups under the central skylight, where they stood in a yellow atmosphere, looking upwards....

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...t I might have become another Rothschild? But I wasn’t meant for a banker; bankers are not so easy to kill. Don’t you think I have been very easy to k... ... confidence of the liveried gentry. The footman led the way across a great central vestibule, with a pyramid of plants in tubs in the middle of glass ...

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...ng down in the court, stopped the dialogue. Presently, the dock became the central point of interest. Two gaolers, who had been standing there, wont o... ...t. Evremonde, of France. Confided to the cares of Messrs. Tellson and Co., Bankers, London, England.” On the marriage morning, Doctor Manette bad made...

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... a small box, which Mr. Dutton undertook to deposit with Lord Ronnisglen’s bankers. He was struck with the scrupulous veracity with which Annaple deci... ...oung voice that seemed to renew those days gone by, and looking across the central aisle his eyes met a pair of dark ones which gave a sudden glitter ...

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...was to Coutts & Co., London, and the fourth to Herren Klopstock & Billreuth, bankers, Buda Pesth. The second and fourth were unsealed. I was just abo... ...he result in ex post facto manner. From thence I went to Carter Paterson’s central of fice, where I met with the utmost courtesy. They looked up t...

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...at from the moment they make a sign. Yes then, the case prescribed for its central figure a sick young woman, at the whole course of whose disintegra-... ...l cuts to the interesting state. Why should a figure be disqualified for a central position by the particular circumstance that might most quicken, th... ...epths of the merely relative, so quickly, so strongly had she clutched her central clue. All her scruples and hesitations, all her anxious enthusiasms... ...aken, I mean, out of whole cloth, the real thing. It’s like changing one’s bankers—after fifty: one doesn’t do that. That’s why Susie has been kept fo...

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... of this vast English middle-class ruling the land is Comfort. It is their central thought; their idea of neces- sity; their sole aim. Whatsoever mini... ...tead of a bounding heart. Something had stunned his heart. He had no clear central feeling; he tried to gather it from her touch, from his joy in beho... ...to be in the front rank of public benefactors—where they put rich brewers, bankers, and speculative manufacturers now. Well! the world is young. We sh...

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...old birdcage (I wonder how that ever came there!) and a coal-scuttle.’ ‘No bankers’ books, or cheque books, or bills, or such to- kens of wealth rolli... ...e Captain, somewhat to the astonishment of the clerks, looked round from a central point of view, and took a general survey of the officers part and p...

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...old birdcage (I wonder how that ever came there!) and a coal-scuttle.’ ‘No bankers’ books, or cheque books, or bills, or such to- kens of wealth rolli... ...e Captain, somewhat to the astonishment of the clerks, looked round from a central point of view, and took a general survey of the officers part and p...

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...still, I trust. It was of good repute in its own way, seeing that no man doubted the word or solvency of Heine Brothers; but they did not possess, as bankers, what would in England be considered a large or profitable business. The operations of English bankers are bewildering in their magnitude. Legions of clerks are employed. The senior book-keepers, though only salaried ...

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...ubted the word or solvency of Heine Brothers; but they did not possess, as bankers, what would in England be consid- ered a large or profitable busine... ...e consid- ered a large or profitable business. The operations of En- glish bankers are bewildering in their magnitude. Legions of clerks are employed.... ...y be enhanced. An Englishman moving himself off to a city in the middle of Central America will find the customs to which he must adapt himself less s...

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...ne weather. Fine weather is due to the sun, but Margaret could think of no central radiance here. She stood in his drawing-room happy, and longing to ... ...happy, and longing to give happiness. On leaving him she realised that the central radiance had been love. “You aren’t offended, Miss Schlegel?” “How ... ...t talk it over judicially with Helen. It had been a strange love-scene—the central radiance unacknowledged from first to last. She, in his place, woul... ... Salisbury Plain itself, and beyond the Plain to all the glorious downs of Central England. Nor is Suburbia absent. Bournemouth’s ignoble coast cowers... ...eped from a new niche. The fur- niture fitted extraordinarily well. In the central room—over the hall, the room that Helen had slept in four years ago... ...n remember. I shall be in London Thursday. “My address will be care of the bankers. I have not yet settled on a hotel, so write or wire to me there an... ...would now return at once. Margaret replied, “Certainly not; meet me at the bankers’ at four.” She and Tibby went up to Lon- don. Helen was not at the ... ... been in England for three days and will not see us. She has forbidden the bankers to give us her ad- dress. She refuses to answer questions. Margaret...

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... reaching all parts of the body, with fixed stations or receivers like the central stations of a telephone system, and with a grand cen- tral exchange... ...tation on the stock exchange. There is another class of forgers, generally bankers, who speculate with trust funds. To cover up the shortage they sign... ... period outlined that man developed his big brain (cerebrum) involving the central nervous system. Furthermore, it was developed by, and trained to, t... ... of education and apparent lack of physical defect commit property crimes. Bankers often take money on deposit after the bank is insolvent. Not infreq... ...s it comes through bad loans and unforeseen condi- tions. Business men and bankers frequently shock their friends and the community by suicide, on dis... ...here can be no question that practically all criminals are poor. Even when bankers get into prison they almost never have much money when they start t...

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...ch clock strikes the first quarter. THE DAUGHTER [in the space between the central pillars, close to the one on her left] I’m getting chilled to the b... ...d the phonograph table is a stand for newspapers. On the other side of the central door, to the left of the visitor, is a cabinet of shallow drawers. ... ...table]. HIGGINS. Oh, have I been rude? I didn’t mean to be. He goes to the central window, through which, with his back to the company, he contemplate... ...ompelled for some years to keep a sufficient sum on current account at his bankers to make up their deficits, found that the provision was unnecessary...

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... latter, he is the son of God. In his own image God made him; and the very central principle of his religion is, that God for a great purpose assumed ... ...tem; that she had the same original right as Rome to wheel about the great central orb, undegraded to the rank of satellite or sec- ondary projection—... .... Both are supported by earthly powers; but one only could be supported by central Islamism. So of Calvinism and Arminianism; you cannot call them doc... ...e, that any language in the Bible implying the earth to be stationary, and central to our system, could not not have been a compliance with the popula... ... or to betray them, but to promote them by means utterly at war with their central spirit. As far as can be judged, it was an attempt to forward the c... ..., is ascribed, by some writers, the first estab- lishment of goldsmiths as bankers.* *Goldsmiths certainly acted in that capacity from an earlier peri... ...e Bank of England in 1696, they entered more fully upon the func- tions of bankers, issuing notes which passed current in Lon- don. T wo other weighty...

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...cts of political zeal. T wo channels especially lay open between the great central organ of the national mind, and the remotest provinces. Parliaments... ...rom the political as- pects of Warwickshire, this county happens to be the central one of England, as regards the roads between the north and south; a... ... roads between the north and south; and Birmingham has long been the great central axis, 9 in which all the radii from the four angles of England prop... ...nations, moving under the large variety of human impulses. The will is the central pivot of character; and this was obliterated, thwarted, cancelled, ... ...o the matron splendors of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean; next, as the central resort of thrme jewellers, or “goldsmiths,” as they were styled, wh... ...oldsmiths,” as they were styled, who performed all the functions of modern bankers from the period of the parliamentary war to the rise of the Bank of...

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... at present be cheated in consequence of the high valuation of copper. The bankers only would suffer by this regulation. When a run comes upon them, t... ...ce to its natural price. The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravi... ...e of the best credit there seldom borrow under five per cent. Even private bankers in Edinburgh give four per cent. upon their promissory-notes, of wh... ...h payment, either in whole or in part may be demanded at pleasure. Private bankers in London give no interest for the money which is deposited with th... ...l different sorts of paper money; but the circu- lating notes of banks and bankers are the species which is best known, and which seems best adapted f... ...kind should, at the same time, be car- ried on by many different banks and bankers, the whole circula- tion may thus be conducted with a fifth part on...

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...but on receiving a cheque for the amount (on Messrs. Pump and Aldgate, our bankers,) tears came into the honest fellow’s eyes. He squeezed our hand un... ...going on phamusly. Y ou should see how 92 Thackeray polite they har at my bankers now! Sir Paul Pump Aldgate, & Company. They bow me out of the back ... ...very convenient to his Lord- ship I know, who had a bill coming due at his Bankers which he had given them. James de la Pluche, Esquire, is thus for t... ...y the night before—aving a multachewd of bisniss on, and Stockbrokers’ and bankers’ 112 Thackeray accounts to settle: atsettrey atsettrey. It was lay... ...Mare’s day my Saint Helenas quotid at 14 pm, were down at 1/2 discount; my Central Ichaboes at 3/8 discount; my Table Mounting & Hottentot Grand Trunk... ...0 for the account at 17 primmium, down to nix; my Juan Fernandez, my Great Central Oregons, prostrit. There was a momint when I thought I shouldn’t be... ...ain; and who were, as we very well know, the chief phy- sicians, the chief bankers, the chief statesmen, the chief artists and musicians, the chief ev...

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...e observed, in many cities, that the sex always shrink from calling up the central office themselves. I don’t know why, but they do. So I touched the ... ... don’t know why, but they do. So I touched the bell, and this talk ensued: CENTRAL OFFICE. ( Gruffy.) Hello! I. Is it the Central Office? C. O. Of cou... ...to do Adam a favor and herself a credit. Then the unexpected happened. Two bankers came for ward and took hold of the matter—not for fun, not for sen... ...more than that now, with this stern business gravity injected into it. The bankers dis cussed the monument with me. We met several times. They propos... ...h, its form would become as familiar as the figure of Napoleon. One of the bankers subscribed five thousand dollars, and I think the other one subscri...

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...tion would be greatly improved. His duty is to call every half year at the bankers’, when he signs his name in a large greasy inconve nient book, to ... ...etuated. I learnt that this Institutional Association is the union, in one central head, of one hundred and fourteen local Mechanics’ Institutions and... ...and gentlemen, this is the main consideration that has brought me here. No central association at a dis tance could possibly do for those working men... ...uld possibly do for those working men what this local association does. No central association at a distance could possibly understand them as this lo... ...distance could possibly understand them as this local association does. No central association at a distance could possibly put them in that familiar ... ...ly furnished, fitted with every appliance, and many of them inhabited. The central hall of the College is built, the grounds are beautifully planned a...

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...embraced the sons of farmers, lawyers, physicians, politicians, merchants, bankers and ministers, and some men of ma- turer years who had filled such ... ...pi- tal, Lexington, Chillicothe and other comparatively large towns in the central part of Missouri. I found a good many troops in Jefferson City, but... ...as guarded from Rienzi, south of Corinth, to Columbus; and the Mississippi Central railroad from Jack- son, Tennessee, to Bolivar. Grand Junction and ... ...Mobile and Ohio railroad and from Jackson to Bolivar where the Mississippi Central is crossed by the Hatchie River. General Sherman commanded on the r... ...iven up and Bolivar became our most advanced position on the Missis- sippi Central railroad. Our cavalry was kept well to the front and frequent exped... ...could have ordered across the river to attack and break up the Mississippi Central railroad far to the south. This would not only have called Van Dorn...

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...nion, we are obliged to frown upon all modes of violence as hostile to the central principle of that union. We are obliged to rate it, according to th... ...stonishing translation of an ancient people across the pathless deserts of Central Asia, intersected continually by rapid rivers, rarely furnished wit... ...e tragedy, according to the great divisions of the route marked out by the central rivers of Asia. The first stage, we have already said, was from the... ...that large masses of the Imperial troops were converging from all parts of Central Asia to the fords of the river T orgai as the most convenient point... ...rcle, composed of men, women, and children, gath- ered by hundreds round a central fire, all dead and stiff at the return of morning light. Myriads we... ...r that part of the accumulations which rises above the optics of sublunary bankers; whilst the Ceylon pillar is constantly unweaving its own granite t...

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... marked with cross and key, and fetched up from the square magazine in the central depot of the infernal factory, third turning to the right off the g... ...n sat in a web, but as yet had done no more than shoot up a glow along the central heavens, in amid the waves of deepened aloud: a mir- ror for night ... ...cried Abrane, as he puffed. ‘What! cut and run and leave us, post winnings—bankers—knock your luck on the head! What a fellow! Can’t let you. Countess... ...s, gigs, carts, pony-traps, boys on ponies, a swarm on legs, flowed to the central point and huddled there. Was either champion born in Kent? An audac... ...et- fully: ‘He changes.’ On the hall table at Esslemont, a letter from his bankers informed the earl of a considerable sum of money paid in to his acc...

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...to bankruptcy of money! And so this poor Versailles Court, as the chief or central Solecism, finds all the other Solecisms arrayed against it. Most na... ...; and rests now, irrecognisable, reburied hastily at dead of night, in the central ‘part of the Churchyard Sainte-Catherine, in the Suburb Saint-Marce... ...ng to the Champ-de-Mars and from it, in the utmost excitability of humour; central Fatherland’s Altar quite heaped with sign- ing Patriots and Patriot... ... 318 The French Revolution so-called. The Countries of the Loire, all the Central and South- East regions, start up distracted, ‘simultaneously as by... ...m: for instance, the Battalion of the Filles-Saint-Thomas, made up of your Bankers, Stockbrokers, and other Full-purses of the Rue Vivienne. Our worth... ... Jacobin President, “which it may be interesting not to state,” have got a Central Committee sitting close by, under the roof of the Mother Soci- ety ...

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...sky. The rain, carried aslant by flaws of wind, blackened that side of the central building which he had visited last night, but left a nar- row dry t... ...t was like the dwelling of an amiable Corsair. There were antiquities from Central Italy, made by the best modern houses in that department of industr... ...al began to inquire what quantity of dust and ashes was de- posited at the bankers’. It then transpired that the commissary had so far stolen a march ... ...when Mr Dorrit, who had lately succeeded to his property, mentioned to his bankers that he wished to discover a lady, well-bred, accomplished, well co... ...ducation of his daughters, and to be their matron or chaperon. Mr Dorrit’s bankers, as bankers of the county-widower, instantly said, ‘Mrs General.’ P... ...ey have been accustomed, at quarterly intervals, to pay to my credit at my bankers’.’ Mr Dorrit bowed his acknowledgements. ‘Permit me to add,’ said M... ...may prove to be), which my friends here have been accustomed to make to my bankers’.’ Mr Dorrit lost no time in referring the delicate question to the...

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...nded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast... ... us wander where we will, the universe is built round about us, and we are central still. If we look into the heavens they are concave, and if we were... ...a sphere whose centre is wherever there is intelligence. The sun is not so central as a man. Upon an isolated hill top, in an open country, we seem to... ...icular de partments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact. A discovery is made, and at once the at tention of all obser...

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...ork harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.’ And ther... ... ever summered solitudes; Until the tossing arms grew still Upon the woody central hill; And, gathered in a panting band, We flung on high each waving ...

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...nk account. And as he performed the latter office by communicating with the bankers, so the former sprang as directly from his good understanding with ... ...e him. Those people—and his free synthesis lumped together capitalists and bankers, re tired men of business, illustrious collectors, American father... ...ikingly yellow gold, mounted by a short stem on an ample foot which held a central position above the fireplace, where, to allow it the better to show,... ...rs of the day as might be; it took on finally the likeness of some spacious central chamber in a haunted house, a great overarched and over glazed rotu...

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...authorized incisions in travelers’ purses with the connivance of the local bankers. An innkeeper and an honest Calvinist to boot, he had married a con... ...ipal authorities of Paris as yet have laid on no water supply to flush the central kennel which drains the houses on either side, and as a result a st...

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...le tops, ran round the walls, surmounted with many artistic ornaments. The central table was crowned with a tall glass of exquisitely-arranged grasses... ...ettlement of accounts made startling revela- tions that the balance at her bankers was just eleven shillings and fourpence halfpenny, and what was nea... ...Esdale is coming to-night to show us his photographs of the lost cities in Central America. You’ll stay, won’t you?” “If Mrs. Brownlow will let me. I ...

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...show me! I’ve been learning about them at those—what’s their names?. . . the bankers. . . they’ve some splendid engravings. They showed them to us.” “... ...heir scrapes and their dreams of glory, had come back a few days before from Central Asia, where he had gained two steps up in rank, and an order rare... ... difficulty completely.” With some effort Stepan Arkadyevitch brought out his central idea, and looked significantly at her. She said nothing, and shook... ...upon Russia, especially facilities of communication, as railways, leading to centralization in towns, the development of luxury, and the consequent de...