The B. B. C. sent to Hobson Brothers and Newcome a great
deal of business, was in a most prosperous condition, kept a great
balance at the bank, a balance that would not be overdrawn, as Sir Barnes
Newcome very well knew. Barnes was for having more of these bills,
provided there were remittances to meet the same. Barnes was ready to do
any amount of business with the Indian bank, or with any bank, or with
any individual, Christian or heathen, white or black, who could do good
to the firm of Hobson Brothers and Newcome. He spoke upon this subject
with great archness and candour: of course as a City man he would be glad
to do a profitable business anywhere, and the B. B. C.'s business was
profitable. But the interested motive which he admitted frankly as a man
of the world, did not prevent other sentiments more agreeable. "My dear
Colonel," says Barnes, "I am happy, most happy, to think that our house
and our name should have been useful, as I know they have been, in the
establishment of a concern in which one of our family is interested; one
whom we all so sincerely respect and regard.
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