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Why not? We shall be able to pay the rent and have a profit out of what we shall get for sub-letting it." "Making a hotel out of your home," Mrs. MacDermott said in disgust. "Och, we're not all home-mad," John retorted. "That's the pity," his mother rejoined. Three weeks later, Eleanor, and Mrs. MacDermott departed for Ballyards.
In fact, the Duke was reckoning that by putting a second mortgage on Dulham Towers for twenty thousand sterling, and by selling his Scotch shooting and leasing his Irish grazing and sub-letting his Welsh coal rent he could raise altogether a hundred thousand pounds. This for a duke, is an enormous sum.
To-morrow morning I shall see about letting my rooms. According to the terms of the settlement I drew out last night, you retain these rent free to the expiration of the lease. That's three years. But you mayn't sub-let." Sub-let! He could talk about sub-letting! The irony of it dragged a laugh through her lips. "Do you think I shall want to sub-let?" she said stridently.
Those asses would have gone back to the agent's and got a key, or else some fellow from the office would have come back with them to show them the house. Just the same, I want you to telephone the estate office that I've changed my mind about sub-letting." He was now at her side. Would he notice anything wrong? "She's about to come to. I thought that dose wouldn't last long."
I had fortunately managed to get rid of my house in the Rue d'Aumale by sub-letting it, a transaction in which I was helped by a present of a hundred francs to the concierge, and was now merely waiting for news from my protectors. As I did not wish to press them, my situation became most painfully prolonged, though it was not altogether devoid of pleasant but tantalising incidents.
Captain Hazard was in the habit of sub-letting a portion of her house; and in the tail-end of the letter from which we have just quoted reference is made thereto. "Have you advertised in the Tribute yet? Try fifty cents' worth for two days, you may catch a sucker.
It is unnecessary to say that he was grieved at the painful consequences of the middleman system, and of sub-letting in general.
'He came up about this sub-letting the property Marlborough Mills, and the house and premises adjoining, I mean. He is unable to keep it on; and there are deeds and leases to be looked over, and agreements to be drawn up. I hope Edith will receive him properly; but she was rather put out, as I could see, by the liberty I had taken in begging for an invitation for him.
This last told Mavis that things were in a bad way at the farm; in consequence, her husband was thinking of sub-letting his house, in order to migrate to Melkbridge, where he might earn a living by teaching music. It closed with repeated wishes for Mavis's welfare.
She looked at it all as though it had been the scene of some unknown life, of which the vague report had reached her: she felt for herself the only remote pity that busy people accord to the misfortunes which come to them by hearsay. She walked to Broadway and down to the office of the house-agent to whom she had entrusted the sub-letting of the shop.
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