The person to whom I have been speaking is my
stockbroker."
The right house was the residence of an opulent stockbroker who wore a heavy watch-chain and seemed fair game.
These, in any case, are the points that I would see to, were I a rich stockbroker in a riverside suburb.
I know that the tune I am piping is a very mild one (although there are some terrific chapters coming presently), and must beg the good- natured reader to remember that we are only discoursing at present about a
stockbroker's family in Russell Square, who are taking walks, or luncheon, or dinner, or talking and making love as people do in common life, and without a single passionate and wonderful incident to mark the progress of their loves.
With intervals of Marshalsea lounging, and Mrs Bangham succession, his small second mother, aided by her trusty friend, got him into a warehouse, into a market garden, into the hop trade, into the law again, into an auctioneers, into a brewery, into a
stockbroker's, into the law again, into a coach office, into a waggon office, into the law again, into a general dealer's, into a distillery, into the law again, into a wool house, into a dry goods house, into the Billingsgate trade, into the foreign fruit trade, and into the docks.
In Brittany he had come across a painter whom nobody else had heard of, a queer fellow who had been a
stockbroker and taken up painting at middle-age, and he was greatly influenced by his work.
I met a young New York
stockbroker, named Nesbitt, in London, and in common with all London, I suppose, by this time, I learnt the secret of all those anonymous contributions to the hospitals and other charitable causes during the last year."
"To look at, one might think he was a successful
stockbroker, and not one of the greatest painters of the age.
You must have discovered a mine, or else become a
stockbroker."
Then she reinvested, and, owing to the good advice of her
stockbrokers, became rather richer than she had been before.
As for
stockbrokers of the Wall Street species, they transact practically all their business by telephone.
{agents de change =
stockbrokers; napoleon = gold coin worth twenty francs}