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Hitherto he had been too much preoccupied to pay any very close attention to the world around; but now, as he sat there, he became aware of sounds which arose apparently from the interior of the great castle on the other side of the chasm. The sounds did not startle him in the least, however, and he was evidently prepared for something of this sort.
"You don't belong to Maraucourt, do you?" asked the girl. "No, do you?" "Sure I do." "Do you work in the factories?" "Should say so, everybody does here." "How much do they pay?" "Ten sous." "And is it hard work?" "Not very; but you have to have a sharp eye and not waste time. Do you want to get in there?" "Yes, if they'd have me." "Should say they would have you; they take anybody.
"The devil!" cried Thuillier; "between now and a year hence to be taxed five hundred francs on property which " "Between now and the end of July, at the latest, you must pay that tax. Well, I feel enough interest in you to tell you the secret of an affair by which you might make from thirty to forty thousand francs a year, by employing a capital of one hundred and fifty thousand at most.
From time to time she glanced apprehensively down the path beyond Pollyanna, and it was after such a glance that she clutched the little girl's arm. "See here, kiddie, for just a minute don't you leave me. Do you hear? Stay right where you are? There's a man I know comin'; but no matter what he says, don't you pay no attention, and DON'T YOU GO. I'm goin' to stay with YOU. See?"
"It can't be compounded," she said; "you will know when I pay it." "And when will that be?" "Ten years, twenty perhaps, I don't know. I thought once or twice before I could pay it with the blue daffodil once, and once when I first got the cottage and things I thought, to be sure, I could do it; it seemed a Heaven-sent way.
It was not fair of her to treat us in that way, and as long as she continues in the mind with which heaven has now endowed her, so long shall we go on eating up your estate; and I do not see why she should change, for she gets all the honour and glory, and it is you who pay for it, not she.
J. B. Thomas, enabled the managers to pay the balance of the purchase money upon the property, and largely increase the number of inmates. For more than five years past, the deserving applicants have been in excess of the capacity of the Home, and there was also an imperative necessity for enlarged hospital accommodations.
'Dwell among the people! such would say: 'Bah! Let them look after themselves! If they cannot pay their rents, others will; what is it to you if the rents are paid? Send them about their business; turn the land into a deer-forest or a sheep-farm, and clear them out! They have no rights! A man is bound to the children of his body begotten; the people are nothing to him!
Besides, you are lacking in what one might call commercial enterprise." "I agree with you," said Lyle, "especially the latter. Anyway, we have had almost sufficient of farming as a luxury, and mean to make it pay. Colonel Carrington's ideal of an exclusive semi-feudal Utopia is very pretty, but I fear it will have to go. Now I'm coming to the point.
He also recommended that depreciation on the pay received, should be made up to the officers who should be reduced. No objection occurred to the measure now recommended, but the expense it would occasion. In his judgment, whatever would give consistency to the military establishment, would be ultimately favourable to economy.
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