When they hear at St.Louis and Chicago that the thing is alive in London, they'll be alive there.

And it's the same here, sir.
When they know that the stock is running like wildfire in America, they'll make it run here too.' 'How far have you got ?' 'What we've gone to work upon is a concession for making the line from the United States Congress.

We're to have the land for nothing, of course, and a grant of one thousand acres round every station, the stations to be twenty-five miles apart.' 'And the land is to be made over to you,--when ?' 'When we have made the line up to the station.' Fisker understood perfectly that Mr Melmotte did not ask the question in reference to any value that he might attach to the possession of such lands, but to the attractiveness of such a prospectus in the eyes of the outside world of speculators.
'And what do you want me to do, Mr Fisker ?' 'I want to have your name there,' he said.

And he placed his finger down on a spot on which it was indicated that there was, or was to be, a chairman of an English Board of Directors, but with a space for the name hitherto blank.
'Who are to be your directors here, Mr Fisker ?' 'We should ask you to choose them, sir.

Mr Paul Montague should be one, and perhaps his friend Sir Felix Carbury might be another.