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I declare to you, Smith, I would rather work in the docks, and leave the churching to the softs and dandies; for then I should be able to respect myself as giving work for my bread, instead of drawing so many pounds a-year for talking goody to old wives and sentimental young ladies; for over men who are worth anything, such a man has no influence.
Though on second thoughts you need not, for I hear he is to be in town next week. He must recollect the estate of eight hundred a-year, of which he has lately taken such violent possession. But he is a dissipated young man, and recollects nothing but his pleasures. I always said, Aby, you were a man of sense; and you are very right in thinking I cannot do too much for my daughter.
But the literary Under-Secretary had saved his political dignity with the stage tribute to Marlborough, which backed the closet praise in the 'Campaign. In May, 1707, Steele received the office of Gazetteer, until then worth L60, but presently endowed by Harley with a salary of L300 a-year.
Then she said, very quietly: "I think I'll take the next pitcher to the well myself, and try my luck. To think how sorry I was for Miss Maggie this morning! May I take a guess at the young man?" "Four thousand a-year! Nancy;" said Mrs. Browne, exultingly. "And a blithe look, and a warm, kind heart and a free step and a noble way with him to rich and poor aye, aye, I know the name.
"Is this custom," asked the Brahmin, "an advantage or a tax on your estate?" "A tax, indeed! Why it is worth from four to five hundred head a-year." "And how much is it worth to your neighbour?" "I presume nearly as much." "Do your vassals get rich by the bounty you give them?" "As to that matter, some who are lucky succeed very well, and the rest make a living by it."
I don’t remember what I heard his income was in pfennigs, or whatever they measure money by in Germany, but I know that it is more than £20,000 a-year in English money. A very large sum nowadays,” she added, as if £20,000 had grown since she was a girl. “Yes, mamma.”
There is at least one great port from which in past times two millions of bales of cotton a-year have found their way to Europe the port of New Orleans which is blockaded; and the United States Government has proclaimed that any cotton that is sent from the interior to New Orleans for shipment, although it belongs to persons in arms against the Government, shall yet be permitted to go to Europe, and they shall receive unmolested the proceeds of the sale of that cotton.
There was a good deal in this proposition that was pleasing to Barry's mind: five hundred a-year without any trouble in collecting it; the power of living abroad in the unrestrained indulgence of hotels and billiard rooms; the probable chance of being able to retain his income and bilk his creditors; the prospect of shaking off from himself the consequences of a connection with the Kellys, and being for ever rid of Dunmore encumbrances.
Let us suppose, for example, that in some particular place, where the common annual profits of manufacturing stock are ten per cent. there are two different manufactures, in each of which twenty workmen are employed, at the rate of fifteen pounds a year each, or at the expense of three hundred a-year in each manufactory.
Hey, Minard, if you should get twenty-five hundred francs a-year your little wife would be uncommonly pleased, and you could buy yourself a pair of boots now and then." Colleville. "But you don't get twenty-five hundred francs." Bixiou. "Monsieur Dutocq gets that in Rabourdin's office; why shouldn't I get it this year? Monsieur Baudoyer gets it." Colleville.
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