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Yet for myself I will say was one only redeeming quality, and that was the pure love I bore to my solitary orphaned child, the little Margery. Now, our Vicar a patient and God-fearing man, for all his predial tithes were impropriated by his lord, that was an absentee and a sheriff in London did little to stem that current of lewdness that had set in strong with the Restoration.
"You'd bore me, Humphrey," said she, as she climbed into her runabout with the father and grandfather of the absentee. Mr. Crewe laughed as she drove away. He had a chemical quality of turning invidious remarks into compliments, and he took this one as Victoria's manner of saying that she did not wish to disturb so important a man.
How high in the air the Graces frisked and leaped in front of the new little home to welcome the returned absentee!
His employer was an absentee who hated the Parson, so the Parson groaned in vain over the scandal. Well, one Fair-day I crossed in Eli's boat with the pair. The woman a dark gipsy creature was tricked out in violet and yellow, with a sham gold watch-chain and great aluminium earrings: and the gamekeeper had driven her down in his spring-cart.
Running to Port Angosto in a snow-storm A defective sheetrope places the Spray in peril The Spray as a target for a Fuegian arrow The island of Alan Erric Again in the open Pacific The run to the island of Juan Fernandez An absentee king At Robinson Crusoe's anchorage.
The Indians felt oppressed because they were compelled to pay the man for what that man had never earned. The white settlers determined to thwart the purpose of the absentee owners to gain an increment from their sacrifice and labor. The landlord has a right to all that he has produced.
The device of the absentee partner has the defect that it cannot be employed for longer than ten or fifteen minutes at a time, and it may not be repeated more than twice in one evening: a single repetition, indeed, is weak, and may prove a betrayal.
I dare say I shall be obliged, now and then, on business. Not often though. I hate absentee landlords, as my father did." "Travelling is said to open the mind," murmured Lady Mary, weakly pursuing her argument, as she supposed it to be. "I've seen enough of the world now to last me a lifetime," said Peter, in sublime unconsciousness that any fate but his own could be in question.
In the present depressed state of the linen trade what a boon that would have been to the country. There might have been ship-building on the Foyle, to the great benefit of Derry and her people, but for the absentee landlords, the London companies.
He quotes his assertion that the aggregate of the absentee rents, amounting then to £627,799 annually, was entirely sent to the Absentee landlords in treasure, "which," continues Mr. The parenthetic note of astonishment is Mr.
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