"Who will buy them?" asked the banker in amazement; he refused to lend the capital that the inventor so sorely needed.

I have seen the banker Rothschild several times driving about the city.

He purposed to translate and circulate through France such publications as they might send him from time to time; and to appoint bankers in Paris, who might receive subscriptions, and remit them to London, for the good of their common cause.

This good deed had placed the banker in the vicar's debt, and he loved and reverenced him in spite of his dread of 'Popish novelties.'

These opinions were imparted to his Uncle Hobson at the bank, and Uncle Hobson carried them home to his wife, who took an early opportunity of repeating them to the Colonel, and the Colonel was brought to see that Barnes was his boy's enemy, and words very likely passed between them, for Thomas Newcome took a new banker at this time, and was very angry because Hobson Brothers wrote to him to say that he had overdrawn his account.

I can never forget the sense of admiring regard which I experienced when in Genoa, while he and I were about to enter our banker's together, he slipped upon a bit of banana peeling, bruising his knee and destroying his trouser leg.

From this we may judge how much less desirable a citizen they esteemed the banker than the thief.

"Ramsden, take that car you came in. Find that banker.

At Geneva, where I stopped three days, I met, at a musical party given by M. Picot the banker, the celebrated cantatrice Grassini, who looked as beautiful as ever, and sung in the most fascinating style several airs, particularly "Quelle pupille tenere" in the opera of the Orazj e Curiazi.

In the way o' finance, ef we jes' hanged the bankers; An' I own the proposle 'ud square with my views, Ef their lives wuzn't all thet

He told himself that he had always hated that banker.

I searched Paris high and low for you, Hermia, haunted your bankers and the hotel where you had been stopping, only returning here at the moment when my engagements in New York made it necessary.

Did you hear thet Boston banker what bought the Cracker-jack from us a-hollerin'?

His association was undoubtedly, to some extent, with the best men of the townbankers and merchants chiefly; and once, when my father had called in a considerable sum of money which he had loaned out at interest on good mortgages, for a term of years, he was so obliging as to interest the most notable bankers of the city in its safe and prompt reinvestment.

'Upon my word, Lancelot,' interposed the banker, with a frightened look, 'you must not get into an argument: you must be more respectful: you don't know to whom you are speaking.'

236 One mighty squadron with a side-wind sped, Through narrow lanes his cumber'd fire does haste, By powerful charms of gold and silver led, The Lombard bankers and the 'Change to waste.

Maybe you see your sons in county offices an' your girls married vit bankers, an' your vife vare new calico dress every day.

Just outside the gate he met the old banker, who, according to his daily custom, had walked back from the town.

" "Of course he would have to notify his bankers of his change of address.

And now the good priest was going to open to him just as much of his heart as should seem fit; and by saying a great deal about Lancelot's evil doings, opinions, and companions, and nothing at all about the heiress of Whitford, persuade the banker to use all his influence in drawing Lancelot up to London, and leaving a clear stage for his plans on Argemone.

Besides West possessed no authority by which to examine the books, or even question the bankers in whose hands the funds were supposed to be.

Pitt himself had raised a banker to the peerage.

Miss Charlotte was always very romantic; refused a respectable banker with indignation, and married her uncle's footmanfor love.

Still more singular is the fact, that the best food, served in the most exquisite manner, and (with sometimes a slight variation) the choicest wines and cigars, may be had at these banks free of cost, except to those who choose voluntarily to remunerate the banker by purchasing a commodity as costly and almost as worthless as the articles sold at ladies' fairs,upon which principle, indeed, the Washington banks are conducted.

'If you are steady, sober, industrious, self-denying and honest, you probably will,' replied the banker.