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It was a capital which those projectors had very artfully

contrived to draw from those banks, not only without their

knowledge or deliberate consent, but for some time, perhaps,

without their having the most distant suspicion that they had

really advanced it.

When two people, who are continually drawing and redrawing upon

one another, discount their bills always with the same banker, he

must immediately discover what they are about, and see clearly

that they are trading, not with any capital of their own, but

with the capital which he advances to them.