[All Around the Moon by Jules Verne]@TWC D-Link bookAll Around the Moon CHAPTER XXIV 9/11
(Philadelphia lawyer), Legal Adviser; and the Astrological Adviser was to be Professor HENRY of Washington.
(Belfast's blunder had injured him so much in public estimation, his former partisans having become his most merciless revilers, that it was considered advisable to omit his name altogether even in the list of the Directors.) From the very beginning, the moneyed public looked on the G.I.C.S, with decided favor, and its shares were bought up pretty freely.
Conducted on strictly honorable principles, keeping carefully aloof from all such damaging connection as the _Credit Mobilier_, and having its books always thrown open for public inspection, its reputation even to-day is excellent and continually improving in the popular estimation.
Holding out no utopian inducements to catch the unwary, and making no wheedling promises to blind the guileless, it states its great objects with all their great advantages, without at the same time suppressing its enormous and perhaps insuperable difficulties.
People know exactly what to think of it, and, whether it ever meets with perfect success or proves a complete failure, no one in the country will ever think of casting a slur on the bright name of its peerless President, J.P. Barbican. For a few years this great man devoted every faculty of his mind to the furthering of the Company's objects.
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