tailieunhanh - The Banker and the Bear The Story of a Corner in Lard

For more than forty years Bagsbury and Company was old John Bagsbury himself; merely another expression of his stiff, cautious personality. Like him it had been old from infancy; you could as easily imagine that he had once been something of a dandy, had worn a stiff collar and a well-brushed hat, as that its dusty black-walnut furniture had ever smelled of varnish. And, conversely, though he had a family, a religion to whose requirements he was punctiliously attentive, and a really fine library, the bank represented about all there was of old John Bagsbury | 1 The Banker and the Bear The Banker and the Bear The Story of a Corner in Lard by Henry Kitchell Webster New York The MacMillan Company London MacMillan Co. Ltd. 1900 THE BANKER AND THE BEAR CHAPTER I 2 CHAPTER I BEGINNINGS For more than forty years Bagsbury and Company was old John Bagsbury himself merely another expression of his stiff cautious personality. Like him it had been old from infancy you could as easily imagine that he had once been something of a dandy had worn a stiff collar and a well-brushed hat as that its dusty black-walnut furniture had ever smelled of varnish. And conversely though he had a family a religion to whose requirements he was punctiliously attentive and a really fine library the bank represented about all there was of old John Bagsbury. Beside a son John he had a daughter born several years earlier whom they christened Martha. She grew into a capricious pretty girl whom her father did not try to understand particularly as he thought she never could be of the smallest importance to Bagsbury and Company. When before she was twenty in utter disregard of her father s forcibly expressed objection she married Victor Haselridge she dropped forever out of the old man s life. The boy John was too young to understand when this happened and as his mother died soon after he grew almost to forget that he had ever had a sister. He was very different serious and on the surface at least placid. He had the old man s lumpy head and his thin-lidded eyes though his mouth was like his mother s generous. His father had high hopes that he might in course of years grow to be worthy of Bagsbury and Company s Savings Bank. That was the boy s hope too when he was fifteen he asked to be taken from school and put to work and his father with ill-concealed delight consented. Through the next five years the old man s hopes ran higher than ever for John showed that he knew how to work and slowly--the tenure of office was long at Bagsbury s--he climbed the first few

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