Green, banker and broker, ever done to drive this young and innocent girl out of the City of New York!
You would despise in a common banker the imbecility that you expect to find in us.
Her father, Bernard Huddlestone, had been a private banker in a very large way of business.
And the tall banker seemed trying to shrink into a nutshell.
The bankersaid the last words with a tone of solemn and even dignified adjuration.
Now since the banker had visited this place, a deep ditch, that served as a drain, had been dug at the opposite base of the hedge, of which neither horse nor man was aware, so that the leap was far more perilous than was anticipated.
The bankerwas not a brave man, and his colour changed slightly at the intimation of this obliging wish.
The bankerwas moved, for he was not worse than his neighbours, though trying to make them believe he was so much better.
But Luke Darvil would have thrashed the banker and all his clerks into the bargain.
The banker lowered his spectacles, and gazed at her without their aid; his eyes were still fine and expressive.
There were one or two low hedges by this short way, but the banker had been there in the spring, and knew every inch of the ground.
And it was with a wonderful address that the banker contrived at once to support the government, and yet, by the frequent expression of liberal opinions, to conciliate the Whigs and the Dissenters of his neighbourhood.
Our banker always seemed more struck by Alice's moral feelings than even by her physical beauty.
The banker added with a sanctified air that he trusted, by a little serious conversation, he had led the poor man to better notions, and that he had gone home with an altered mind to his family.
The banker was so nonplused that he permitted his cigar to go out, but he soon reached the conclusion, "He has bungled.
He was almost as grave and reticent as the banker himself, and the latter began to chafe and grow irritable over the problem which he was bent on seeing solved in but one way.
After supper Mr. and Mrs. Muir found a comfortable nook on the piazza, and the bankersmoked his cigar with ineffable content.
The banker had long appreciated Pascal's work, accepted his proposition, and the bookkeeper left the little town, to the great regret of his former master, who tried too late to retain him in his own interests.
He entered into a business correspondence with a banker in Paris, to whom he offered his services.
To call me his standing counsel and his banker would be nearer the fact.
I have a good bankerin this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.
When the banker sent to Soames, he was obliged to take the matter up.
A banker at Paris, to who whom he brought a letter, told him that Mrs Arabin would now be found at Venice.
I had always believed myself free from pride of rank or pride of wealth; but it was with an immense chagrin that I remembered how the banker had answered my off-hand question with the words "Miss Langley's maid.
It was the Derlingham banker who told me who you were.
It was written in bad English, and stated that if the advertiser would place the forty pounds promised with a banker at Serajevo the writer would furnish authentic information concerning M.
Not wishing to give his own address, which might have brought to him all sorts of correspondence more or less dishonest, he put the matter into the hands of his banker at Amiens.
The banker paused and glanced at some papers he held in his hand.
It is not what you hoped, what we all hoped," said the banker quietly.
The next day the banker from Amiens called at the factory.
He was met at the steps by Talouel, who did all in his power to get the first information which he knew the banker was bringing.
For about eight years he was a banker and then devoted himself to literature.
The farmer, the manufacturer, the merchant and the banker of the Pacific Northwest during the past generation owe a great debt to the miner of the sixties of the last century.
Sidenote: Madison Street] Banker Street having become a byword, because of the objectionable character of its inhabitants, the name was changed to Madison Street in 1826.
So the banker dismissed Chaigneux, undertaking to do his business for him in the same way as he had undertaken to do Duthil's.
On recognising the banker he darted forward, and bowed to him with obsequious eagerness.
Monferrand, the Marquis de Morigny, and banker Louvard, the three other witnesses, followed the Baroness and General Bozonnet, each giving his arm to some lady of the family.
The banker scolded him for coming, saying that it was a great mistake to have done so, particularly with such a scared face.
The bankerhad done or said something to make Leconbridge suspicious; had suggested possibly, among other things, that his wife could not produce the diamonds were she asked to do so.
The two white-haired brothers, the banker and the poor country preacher, remained downstairs, and for hours talked of boyhood days in the old country home in the East.
Again there was silence, which was suddenly broken by the banker sobbing, "Oh, John, I am a pauper at the judgment bar of God.
Finally thebanker turned and said, "Brother John, may I say something to you and you not get angry?
It's dangerous to drive an automobile through a dark street these days; one's liable to run down a starving banker or an indigent broker with a piece of lead pipe and a mask.
The banker broke out, irritably: "Now don't begin that!
The banker had been using his eyes with an interest that betrayed his unfamiliarity with these surroundings.
The more he thought of this the more imperative seemed the necessity, but when he ventured to submit the proposition to Merkle the banker curtly refused to entertain it.
Thus far the banker had fully lived up to his sour reputation.
He asked him if the banker had told him this, and he answered, "No.
The note held by the Pennsylvania banker had been issued for the benefit of this business and must be paid.
That night, as Clarrie bade Andrew farewell at the garden gate, he took her head in his hands and asked what this talk about the banker meant.
The bankerwas unmarried, and had once in February and again in June seen Clarrie home from the Dorcas Society.
He was, indeed, the banker of the village, and what he lent he neither expected nor wished to be returned.
We put up at the best posada which the place afforded, and I forthwith proceeded to visit one of the principal merchants of the town, to whom I was recommended by my banker in Madrid.
The name of Flaccus fell on his heart like a stone; for the great banker never went back when he had taken a stand, and was rich enough to corrupt the most lax and merciful jury.
I am very respectable, but quite poor--but they don't know how I have economized, and how my account stands with Sosthenes the banker at Alexandria.
Not for twenty dollars in cash would that banker admit that the establishment with which he was connected ever made a mistake.
The banker guards against this system by limiting their progression to a certain figure and thus breaking it down.
Now if this great rich banker could not afford to indulge in mistakes, how much less can you, who have your whole fortune to make, be anything less than strictly accurate in all your operations?
When the banker or dealer loses at once, the bank "fa toppa," and the deal passes, but not otherwise.
While the banker waited for the elevator car he leaned wearily against the wire screen of the shaft.
Now he may be a safe banker and all that, but I say that there's such a thing as pushing conservatism too damned far.
Yon mustn't overdo the thing, young man," said the banker amiably, as he closed his desk.
His rage was rising now and he did not urge Porter to remain when the banker got up to go.
He intended to call at the Porters' on his way home, and stopped at the bank before going to his office, thinking that the banker might be there; but the president's desk was closed.
And they say you're the most conservativebanker on the river.
The banker ate little and carried the burden of the conversation.
He was surprised to find how completely Porter had freed himself from business; the sometime banker talked of Clarkson affairs with an accentuation of the past tense, as if to wave them all away as far as possible.
Saxton was very patient under his cross-examination, and reassured the banker by his manner and his facts.
Western men are, he knew, much more tolerant of failure than Eastern men; but he was relieved to hear the banker drawling on with a comment on Clarkson, its commercial history and prospects.
The banker had sent up the combination of the safe, as he had promised, and Saxton began inspecting its contents and putting his office in order.
He knew that Porter refused railroad passes on practical grounds, holding that such favors were extended in the hope of reciprocal compliments, and he believed that a banker was better off without them.
He was not as buoyant as his last words to the banker implied.
