Sir Brook Fossbrooke: A Novel
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TffSHB was no name on the door-posts, nothing heyond the nomber 48 to serve as a guide; and yet it may be doubted whether any firm in the city was better known to the postman, the bankers clerks, and all who had regn- lar business to transact with them, than that of Streightley andS on. The firm had been Streightley andS on, and it had been located at 48 Bullion Lane, for the last hundred ind fift...
MoreTffSHB was no name on the door-posts, nothing heyond the nomber 48 to serve as a guide; and yet it may be doubted whether any firm in the city was better known to the postman, the bankers clerks, and all who had regn- lar business to transact with them, than that of Streightley andS on. The firm had been Streightley andS on, and it had been located at 48 Bullion Lane, for the last hundred ind fifty years. They were money-brokers and scripsellers at the time of theS outh-S ea bubble, and were among the very few who were not ruined by that disastrous swindle. So little ruined were they that they prospered by it, and in the next generation extended their business and enlarged their profits; both of which, however, were considerably curtailed by rash speculations during the French Revolution and the American War. Within the first quarter of the present century the business of Streightley andS on recovered itself; and, under the careful management of oldS amS treightley and his head clerk, Mr. Fowler, the house became highly esteemed as one of the safest bill-broking establishments in the City. It was not, however, until young Mr. Kobert, following the bounden career of all the eldest sons of that family, joined the business, and, after close application, had thoroughly mastered its details, that fortune could be said to have smiled steadily on the firm. Yoing Mr. Robert sviews were so large and his daring so great, that his father, old Mr. Sam, at first stood aghast, and had to be perpetually supplicated before he gave permission to experiment on the least hazardous of all the young mans suggestions; but, after the son had been about two years a partner in the firm, it happened that the father was laid up with such a terrible attack of gout as to be incapable of attending to business for months; and when he at length obtained the physicians grudging assent to hi
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