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Carroll, as has been seen, resolved to leave Y immediately. This design he hinted to one of the members of his church. "You engaged with us for a year, did you not?" enquired the member. That settled the question in the mind of the unhappy minister. He said no more to any one on the subject of his income, or about leaving the parish.
Then we talked money matters, and I suggested that he surely possessed something which he could turn into money sufficient to keep us for a year or two, as I had a small income though not absolutely sufficient for our wants. In fact, I offered, now that he had compromised me in the eyes of my husband, to elope with him.
"Whatever happens, Lord Highcliffe is safe, high and dry above water mark. Carefully invested, the capital sum may be made to produce an income of four thousand, or thereabouts. Not too much for an earldom, but Ah, well, it might be so much worse." "The servants the small debts this house is there enough for them?" asked Stafford, after a pause. Mr. Chaffinch waved his hand.
Only desire earnestly, and you will feel yourself alive again. Your misfortune, my friend, is that you have not to work for your daily bread. A settled income is only a blessing to those to whom the attainment of the trifling and external pleasures of life seems worth the trouble of an effort. You are wise enough to set no value on what the world can give you. You are neither vain nor ambitious.
In a moment or two Selingman spoke again. "The information which I am lacking just at present in your sphere of operations, is civilian in character. Take Ghent, for instance. What I should like here, what our records need at present, is a list of the principal inhabitants with their approximate income, and, summarising it all, the rateable value of the city.
The little lady was living now in a tiny house with a big studio at Chiswick. A Forsyte of the best period, so far as the lack of responsibility was concerned, she had overcome the difficulty of a reduced income in a manner satisfactory to herself and her father.
I have no need of a fortune. A man like myself wants nothing but a little bread, a gun, a hound, and the first inn he comes to on the edge of the wood. Since you are good enough to act as my guardian pay me the income on my eighth of the fief and do not ask me to learn that Latin bosh. A man of birth is sufficiently well educated when he knows how to bring down a snipe and sign his name.
Happening to mention that I was, if not a scholar, yet a student, the son told me there was at Sutton a celebrated grammar-school, where the school-master received two hundred pounds a year settled salary, besides the income arising from the scholars. And this was only in a village.
It was therefore necessary, in order to be prepared to follow Maslova to Siberia, upon which Nekhludoff was firmly resolved, to go to the villages and arrange his affairs there. First of all, he went to the Kusminskoie estate, the nearest, largest black-earth estate, which brought the greatest income.
Blaine when she could get in a word sideways. "Yes, m'm," he snapped, "a shipping clerk what of it?" "Is that a very lucrative position?" He laughed derisively as if it was absurd to imagine he was going to remain a shipping clerk all his life. "Oh, I'm only a clerk now, but I'll be boss some day see if I don't." "Might I ask what your present income is?" inquired the widow blandly.
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