Crossword-Solution: FINANCIER 9 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The little shrunken financier was intensely delighted to have questions asked him, and he scraped together information, by frugal processes, and took notes, in his little greasy pocket-book, of incidents which might interest his munificent friend.

That venerable financier, however, still seemed struggling with portions of his well-lined attire, and at length produced from a very interior tail-coat pocket, a black oval case which he radiantly explained to be his Christmas present for his god-daughter.

There was a momentary silence, broken in an extraordinary way by the banker, who cried out in a hoarse and strangled voice: “Robbed! I’ve been robbed!” “Why, that was hours ago,” cried his son in astonishment: “when you were robbed of two thousand pounds.” “Not of two thousand pounds,” said the financier, with an abrupt and terrible composure, “only of a small bottle.” The policeman with the grey imperial was striding across the green hollow.

She was rich in her own name, even before her marriage, being a relative of Shelgrim himself and on familiar terms with the great financier and his family.

Winthrop himself had come to the artist, and in one terse sentence had doubled the original price and expressed himself as hopeful that Henshaw would put up with “the child's notions.” It was the old financier's next sentence, however, that put the zest of real determination into Bertram, for because of it, the artist saw what this portrait was going to mean to the stern old man, and how dear was the original of it to a heart that was commonly reported “on the street” to be made of stone.