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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: 99 tOH m Chapter Xxx. Thk Panic. HE plot thickened in the City. In precipitating the inevitable panic, Kifler had done more for his kind than many a professed philanthropist, and families unborn had reason to bless the defaulter who put a stop to the wholesale manufacture of bubble companies. The revelations of the Suburban shook the credit of many a flourishing kindred establishment: the committee of investigation proclaimed the dark secret of their prison-house in the streets: the miserable shareholders saw their priceless scrip changing to withered leaves, shuddered at horrid calls instead of swaggering overfabulous dividends, and shrieked their piteous complaints in the ears of all who would listen. Where every one was committed to limited liability, listeners they found in plenty. The press took them up and consecrated long columns to their meetings and their wrongs. Eloquent leaders made them the txts of soul-stirring sermons, pointing the morals by holding them up as warnings. Things were dark enough at best, but ingenious journalists made it a point of honour and intellect to throw them into yet blacker shade. Morning and evening, for full nine days, was Eifler gibbeted; and what had done duty for a character with him in his flourishing City days was torn to shreds and tatters, like be grimy rags in the carding-mnchinery of a paper-mill. Had he emained in her Majesty's service, risen to the rank of field-marshal, ad saved his country, he could scarcely have hoped to fill the mouths f his countrymen as he did. It appeared he had conducted the iscoanting business of the Suburban on much the same free-handed ystem with which he had backed bills for his brother officers. Other odies of shareholders began to ask themselves whether they were nconsciously exten...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458977984 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458977986 |
| Weight | 2.08 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.44 In |
| List Price | $45.29 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 652 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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