Man is a jumble of contradictory crotchets, and it would be difficult to find anywhere a financier who lived, as they are all commonly supposed to do, purely for the pleasure of amassing wealth.

Shall I?' 'What must I say?' asked the financier.

Since Philip the Second of Spain published his views on "financiering and unhallowed practices with bills of exchange," and illustrated them by repudiating his debts, there has been a chorus of opinion singing the same tune with variations, and describing the financier as a bloodsucker who makes nothing, and consumes an inordinate amount of the good things that are made by other people.

He knew the financier very well, and knew that he was, with all his subtle cleverness, a man of spotless honor.

He had exceptionally good nerves, he was generally cool to a fault, and he had the daring that makes great financiers.

It was not Pickering’s fault that the consul was a friend of mine who kept track of my wanderings and was able to hurry the executor’s letter after me to Italy, where I had gone to meet an English financier who had, I was advised, unlimited money to spend on African railways.

Oh, the horror of the prison systemespecially for brave men, men with a code of honour of their ownpossibly sometimes a higher code than that of the average British politician, not to mention the be-knighted cosmopolitan financier, friend of princes and honoured of kings.

'Didn't know this was to be a dinner with speeches,' murmured the financier, after a few minutes, in his neighbour's ear.

"We are seven!(or at least we will be when we pick up a financier at Atwood's).

If this view is correct then all finance, international and other, is organized robbery, and instead of writing and reading books about it, we ought to be putting financiers into prison and making a bonfire of their bonds and shares and stock certificates.

Such insight fascinated Ralph, and he strayed off into wondering why it did not qualify every financier to be a novelist, and what intrinsic barrier divided the two arts.

But now the kings of the earth are raging financiers with a shrewd eye to business, and their subjects starve to pay them.

"I say I suppose we can count on you for a subscription of two hundred and fifty dollars," repeated the financier.

The ekka horses, too, had brought our heavy luggage all the way from Abbotabad over a shocking road in the most admirable manner, and we had every reason to congratulate ourselves on having entrusted the arrangement of the whole businessthe "bandobast" in native parlanceto our henchman Sabz Ali, who had thus proved himself an energetic and trustworthy organiser, and saving financier to the extent of some twenty rupees.

Leonora, also, was not idle, and among her many gains was a bribe of three hundred thousand livres to screen certain financiers under trial for fraud.

" "And a nice mess you've got us both into, with your 'taking it for granted,'" snorted the old miserly financier of Sandy Beach.

But, although they subjected the financier to the keenest good-natured scrutiny, he did not show a sign or give them any clue.

"You fellows never seek the natural causes for things; you at once accuse the financiers.

Still TALK we must have, and we want a financier.