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I'd have thought " Dr. O'Grady interrupted them both. "Suppose you agree to split the difference," he said, "and say £32 10s. for the filly. It's a pity to see two men like you losing your tempers over a bargain." "It's not the bargain," said Doyle, "that has my temper riz. It's " "Doyle can have the filly if he likes," said the Major, "at £32 10s. I don't want to go on wrangling about that.
Alexander Ballantyne the sum of £500, upon a promissory note for £512, 10s. payable 15th November to him or his order. If God should call me before that time, I request my son Walter will, in reverence to my memory, see that Mr. Alexander Ballantyne does not suffer for having obliged me in a sort of exigency he cannot afford it, and God has given my son the means to repay him. May 14.
This day a genteel woman came to me, claiming kindred of me, as she had once done before, and borrowed 10s. of me, promising to repay it at night, but I hear nothing of her. I shall trust her no more.
A tenant on a property to which I was agent, whose rent was £6 a year, swore he expended £395 on improvements and all that it was worth afterwards was £4, 10s. He received the implicit credit of the court.
In obedience to these instructions, the Commissioners made their investigations, and reported that they had recognised, as worthy of further inquiry, claims representing a sum total of 241,965l. 10s. 5d., but they added an expression of opinion that the losses suffered would be found, on closer examination, not to exceed the value of 100,000l.
The Government introduced into the House of Lords an additional bill for the complication and confiscation of landed property in Ireland. Lord Morris said it reminded him of the bill a veterinary surgeon sent in to a friend of his, the last item of which ran: 'To curing your grey mare till she died, 10s. 6d.
The tenant's interest was sold for £700. Tenant's interest on a farm in County Tipperary, on Lord Normanton's estate, at yearly rent of £30, was sold for £600, and the fee-simple purchased for £450. Tenant's interest at Breaing, near Castleisland, held at the annual rent of £51, 10s., was sold for £550.
There was no need to harass "Tommy" by setting him to do the work. Every Division was accompanied by swarms of niggers, who drew from Government £4 10s. per month and their food. These niggers had a gentleman's life. They waxed fat, lazy, and cheeky. Four-fifths of them rode all day on transport wagons, and never earned a fourth of the wages they drew from a sweetly paternal Government.
Which case, or any application from Voltaire, never turned up. "Robbed by those highwaymen of Prussian Agents!" exclaimed Voltaire everywhere, instead of applying. Never applied; nor ever forgot. So that, except as consolatory scolding-stock for the rest of his life, Voltaire got nothing of his 76 pounds 10s., "with jewels and snuffbox," always lying ready in the Trunk for him.
Wages have fallen during the last few years to the barest subsistence point, and even below. Wages for men are put at 10s. or 12s., and in the case of girls and young women, fall as low as 4s.; a sum which is in itself insufficient to support life, and must therefore be only paid to women and girls who are partly subsisted by the efforts of relatives with whom they live, or by the wages of vice.
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