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Until the other day there prevailed in Scotland the almost insane law of hypothec, which allowed a landlord to pursue his tenant's goods even into the hands of an "innocent holder." But there is no argument in favour of the landlord which any other creditor might not advance with equally good reason.
Otherwise the Government is prepared to advance the necessary purchase money, to be repaid at the rate of four per cent. per annum, which covers both principal and interest. Suppose the tenant's rent to be £50, and that he agreed to buy at the seventeen years' purchase so strongly discountenanced by the priest quoted in my last.
Besides, bad Oeconomy is visible and apparent in Builders of invisible Mansions. My Tenant's Advertisements of Ruins and Dilapidations often cast a Damp on my Spirits, even in the Instant when the Sun, in all his Splendor, gilds my Eastern Palaces.
When he found himself a prisoner and threatened, he betrayed his brother, and declared that they might find him any night at Roche-Mauprat, hiding in a secret chamber which the tenant's wife helped him to reach, without her husband's knowledge.
A widow, by name Mrs Wace, in whose house Baptista Trewthen had been provided with a sitting-room and bedroom till the schoolhouse should be built, noticed this change in her youthful tenant's manner, and at last ventured to press her with a few questions. 'It has nothing to do with the place, nor with you, said Miss Trewthen. 'Then it is the salary? 'No, nor the salary.
"He dined as usual with a good appetite; then he went up stairs and remained there for an hour. When he came down, he had a letter in his hand, which he gave to Michael, our tenant's son, and told him to carry it to Sauveterre, to Miss Chandore." "Yes. In that letter, M. de Boiscoran told Miss Dionysia that he was retained here by a matter of great importance." "Ah!"
Charles answered her contritely, repressing the merry twinkle in his eye. "I am a poor tenant's son of Colonel Lane, in Staffordshire," he said; "we seldom have roast meat, and when we have, we don't make use of a jack." "That's not saying much for your Staffordshire cooks, and less for your larders," replied the maid, with a head-toss of superiority.
Having given this explanation, I am at liberty to use that mode of speech which generally prevails in the Highlands and the Hebrides. See ante, iii. 275. Boswell implies that Sir A. Macdonald's table had not been furnished plentifully. Johnson wrote: 'At night we came to a tenant's house of the first rank of tenants, where we were entertained better than at the landlord's. Piozzi Letters, i. 141.
The thumb-mark is upon page 469 of 'Poisons, Their Effects and Detection, by Alexander Wynter Blyth. "No sooner had I made sure of my discovery than I set out for No. 5 Oak Street, the address given by Rizzi. There was no such person there, nor had there been anyone of that name in the house during the three years of the present tenant's occupancy.
We were hungry as wolves, so I took Mitch into the pantry where we found a blackberry pie, and a crock of milk, rich with cream. We ate the pie and drank the milk. Then I showed Mitch the barn and the horses, and my saddle. I took him into the work house where the tools were. I showed him the telephone I made which ran down to the tenant's house.
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