... faltering tongue, We've cornered them 1 In Africa he saw the fight 'Twixt Boer and Briton day and night In England, the weary bankrupt's home, And from his lips escaped a groan, We've cornered them 1 Oh speak the truth the public said, Too long our country ...

... Wiight, who figures as Barry, the faithful servant of Commander Geoffrey Challoner, the penniless son of a late lamented bankrupt squire. The scene is Devonshire with a background of landscape by Mr. Hawes Craven such as has rarely been staged before ...

... of man I want to make money out of. It s very rough I know and I feel for you, but it's no good. Throw up the sponge, go bankrupt, and start afresh. But take my advice and don't borrow money from West-end moneylenders. I have even heard of cases where ...

... impossibility. Neither is it an impossibility for a man to break the bank at Monte Carlo, not in the sense of temporarily bankrupting one table, but in the wider and fuller meaning of exhausting the working capital of the institution. But it is very unlikely ...

... criticises Shakspere rather adversely in a treatise he has just written. Shakspere does not propose to reply. Is the Sun going bankrupt? asks the Daily Mail. We thought everyone knew that the Globe had become responsible for tne Sun. The current number of ...

... Ganz, the hotel director, was in despair. He would surely lose his place, the hotel would be ruined. The proprietors must go bankrupt. He fairly sobbed when he talked it over with me in the privacy of his own room. One feature in the business struck me as ...

... well-known love of forming one of I a crowd would make him feel lonely with less than j fifteen in his railway carriage. Bankrupt Builders. Bankruptcies are more common among builders than among any other class of traders. The speculative builder is always ...

... condition or serve to accentuate the poverty or criminality of the baronets. The baronet, it would seem, is apt to be bad, bankrupt, blackguardly, or bogus. This opinion is probably exaggerated, but there is much to be said against baronetcies. Hereditary ...

... looked like that, And so we parted on the spot The girl I married wore a ha'. But lo 1 the gods will have their sport I'm bankrupt for a large amount Because my purse was all too short To pay her milliner's account. ...

... yes, replied the commercial, I should say you were going there to take a small shop, fill it with, say, about ^50 worth of bankrupt stock, insure it for .£500, leave your lighted cigar about, and return to town next week ^450 to the good. Excellent, splendid ...

... write to-day? Next week my pro phetic soul tells me I shall be able to think and speak of nothing but sales, and the already bankrupt condition of my purse foretells days of repentance and penury when I shall have finished my shopping. Even the sight of a ...

... interests are at stake, he can also be kind and genial where life and throne are not involved, and he is the only European bankrupt who does not borrow. British Delateurs. It was my fate at dinner a day or two ago to hear several well-to-do Britishers ...