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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 5 I Once occupied a seat in the office of a most respectable firm of solicitors in Lincoln's Inn. Part of their business consisted in. ' financing, ' as it is termed, builders?that is to say, lending them money for the purpose of completing the contracts on which they were engaged, or of finishing the houses, shops, or other structures they had undertaken to erect. It is, when properly managed, a safe and fairly lucrative species of business, always supposing the men who borrow are people of some substance and have funds and means of their own. In fact we had done a great deal of this class of business, and had acquired quite a reputation for it. One day I was sitting in the office with Flickster, my co-managing clerk, when the office boy entered the room and said, 'Mr. Tadpole wishes to see you, sir.' ' Tadpole ?' I said, ' Tadpole ? I do not recollect the name. However, show him in.' There entered the room a rather shabby, greasy-looking little man with a large head, sandy hair, a cast in one eye, and, as I thought, a somewhat cunning expression. I noticed that his coat was threadbare, and one of his boots had a slight crack on the side of it. His gloves, too, seemed somewhat old and too large for his hands. His umbrella was of the Gampish type, and his whole appearance just a little seedy and disreputable. However, he was in no way disconcerted by our scrutiny, but said: ? Good morning, gentlemen. Which of you is Mr. Cumming ? ' Mr. Gumming, the senior partner, is not in, ' I replied, ' but I m his manager and can attend to any business you have with him.' I understand, ' he said, ' that your firm is in the habit of lending money on buildings in course of erection. I have a first-rate matter here on which I want a little money, and I think I may say it is one of th
| ISBN-13 | 9781459095960 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459095960 |
| Weight | 0.95 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 In |
| List Price | $29.04 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 290 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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