... nothing of. but I know that men are reputed honest even after bankruptcy. if they give up everything; why can you not become bankrupt I And you and your mother ? he says. /, what is that to me I / would fifty thousand times rather be as poor as Menichina ...

... dull, Exchange was thin, gazettes were full, And half the country breaking; The countersign of cash was Stop, Bankers and bankrupt shut up shop, And honest hearts were aching, When near the bench my fancy spied A faded form with hasty stride. Beneath grief's ...

... satisfaction of their requirements. A course, of which the consequence must be to, entail complete ruin on a country already bankrupt in every essential particular, and wholly dependent on imported capital for the daily necessaries of existence, cannot commend ...

... the law courts having been called upon to decide who is really the owner of the establishment. The original proprietor went bankrupt, and consequently tho club had to change hands, nominally if not actually. It may be satisfactory to members of this club ...

... of thing, and Claude pinned it to her dress behind, and she came down to dinner with it on! What was written on it ? Bankrupt stock! Enormous reduction! Apply immediately I The lawyer never laughs heartily, but he now gives vent to a series of chuckles ...

... I just toll you that, Sir, to show you I meant honest, anyway. Well, Sir, at the end of the next week the works had gone bankrupt, and there was no wages for any of us. I went home sad enough, and found a County-Court summons waiting for me,—to cheer ...

... I wish I was. It has made me so awfully miserablo ! • So it might! Why, the man hasn't got a single sou. He is nearly bankrupt, and is going to leave the Army ! Tommy's face blanches, his knees knock, ho clutches at her hand, — No, Tilly, no, that ...

... lady-help? TARIFFIC HERESlES.—Protection and Reciprocity. A DEAF'UN-ITION.—One who cannot hear. When a merchant became bankrupt, he put a sign at the door, which read Not In, and sat in his office to meditate on the uncertainties of business enterprise ...

... hurried to count his change. The Stock Exchange, then, is a sham and a s - weater, just as the Bank of England is a privileged bankrupt. Let me prove my words. First, as to the sham. It assumes the airs of a public institution, of a body recognised by law, ...