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It was ready for anything a reception to celebrate the nuptials of a maid, a lunch to a Cabinet Minister with an axe to grind in the district, or a sale by auction of house-property with wine ad libitum to encourage bids. But its chief social use was perhaps as a retreat for men who were tired of a world inhabited by two sexes.
It is doubtless part of a longer record, a register of house-property in the whole town. Orange, Colonia Iulia Secundanorum Arausio, was a 'colonia' founded about 45 B.C. with discharged soldiers of Caesar's Second Legion.
House-property will go down if there's war. You'll have trouble with Roger's estate. I often told him he ought to get out of some of his houses. He was an opinionated beggar." 'There was a pair of you! thought Soames. But he never argued with an uncle, in that way preserving their opinion of him as 'a long-headed chap, and the legal care of their property.
He lived on the ground floor, expecting to pay the remainder out of letting the rest; but though it is safe to speculate in house-property in Paris, such investments are capricious or hang fire, depending on unforeseen circumstances.
Just then the author of the play suddenly entered, and Lucien beheld M. du Bruel, a short, attenuated young man in an overcoat, a composite human blend of the jack-in-office, the owner of house-property, and the stockbroker. "Florine, child," said this personage, "are you sure of your part, eh? No slips of memory, you know.
'That is Mr. Somerset! interrupted the spirited old lady, in the highest note of her register. 'Mr. Somerset, what have you done with my house-property? 'Madam, said the Prince, 'let it be mine to give the explanation; and in the meanwhile, welcome your daughter. 'Well, Clara, how do you do? said Mrs. Luxmore. 'It appears I am to give you an allowance. So much the better for you. As for Mr.
Kitely ever had any visitors since he came to Highmarket?" "Only one," answered Miss Pett. "And it was my nephew, who came up for a week-end to see him on business. Of course, I don't know what the business was. Mr. Kitely had property in London; house-property, and " "And your nephew, as his solicitor, no doubt came to see him about it," interrupted Brereton.
New suburbs have arisen in a day, not because any central power willed it, but simply by the combined greed, energy, and enterprise of the speculative builder, who invariably builds rotten houses, which he sells as fast as he can to guileless people with a passion for owning house-property. The result has been confusion, waste, and disappointment.
Excluding, of course, ground-rents, which make London houses so expensive, I think one may fairly say that rents here are about double the rate they are at home, and yet, except for the rise in the value of land in the cities and their suburbs, house-property is by no means a remunerative investment. Nevertheless, there is always a great demand for it.
Five reception-rooms. Sixteen bedrooms. Bathroom " Or: "Thoroughly up-to-date mansion. Six reception-rooms. Splendid hall. Billiard-room. Twenty-four bedrooms. Also I wonder, faintly blushing, what Americans truly do think of the residential aspects of European house-property when they first see it.
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