bonds

“We will suppose that this couple are united by the bonds of a guilty love, and that they have determined to get rid of the man who stands between them.

Stocks and bonds, loans and mortgages, margins and securities—here was a world of finance, and there was no room in it for the human world or the world of nature.

In a minute we had torn off the gag, unswathed the bonds, and Mrs.

“Yes; I am calculating—by the way, Morcerf, that indirectly concerns you—I am calculating what the house of Danglars must have gained by the last rise in Haiti bonds; from 206 they have risen to 409 in three days, and the prudent banker had purchased at 206; therefore he must have made 300,000 livres.”