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We understand each other. We quite agree. We have a most complete and thorough explanation, and we know what course to take. Why don't you taste your tenant's wine? It's really very good. 'Pray who, said Mr Haredale, 'have aided Emma, or your son? Who are their go-betweens, and agents do you know?
Thus, the famous reductions in County Clare, where the abatements granted averaged over 30 per cent., and in some cases exceeded 50 per cent., were not perhaps all a sign of the landlord's iniquity, but also may be taken to show something of the tenant's indifference.
"That's a great thing to come bothering about! Why didn't he get a screw-driver and screw up the screws?" "It's my place to keep the house in order," said Susan. "The report of things out of order usually sets landlords in a feaze, but you keep as serene as the moon with your tenant's complaints.
Then he asked M. de Chandore to lend him his carriage, and went out to Boiscoran. He wanted to see Michael, the tenant's son, who had been so prompt in finding Cocoleu, and in bringing him into town. He found him, fortunately, just coming home, bringing in a cart loaded with straw; and, taking him aside, he asked him, "Will you render M. de Boiscoran a great service?"
The land, say they, is let to the Tacksman at sixpence an acre, and by him to the tenant at ten- pence. Let the owner be the immediate landlord to all the tenants; if he sets the ground at eight-pence, he will increase his revenue by a fourth part, and the tenant's burthen will be diminished by a fifth.
The interest on Lord Granard's estate, the valuation of which was five guineas, was sold for £280, and the fee-simple subsequently bought for £80. On one of his own farms for which the tenant paid £65 annual rent, the tenant's interest fetched £750 and auction fees. A farm at Curraghila, near Tralee, annual rent £70, Poor Law valuation, £51, 10s., area stat. 73 acres.
Arthur and Laura rode by the gates of Fairoaks; and he shook hands with his tenant's children, playing on the lawn and the terrace Laura looked steadily at the cottage wall, at the creeper on the porch and the magnolia growing up to her window. "Mr.
The best things that had been saved from the old furniture had been placed there; and, as it was cold and damp, in spite of all the trouble they had taken to make it habitable, the tenant's servant preceded me with a firebrand in one hand and a fagot in the other.
The sun was rising, illuminating the sky with all its various colours; the lark was soaring towards heaven's gates; the mowers could already be heard sharpening their scythes in the hay fields, and Mary and Louisa, the tenant's daughters, were busily engaged milking their father's cows. A carriage, drawn by two grey horses, carried the heiress of "Les Marches" to be married to Frank Mathers.
The door was locked, and an application of the housekeeper's key proved that the tenant's key had been left in the lock inside. Mrs. Clayton's conviction that "something had happened" became distressing, and in the end Hewitt pried open the door with a small poker. Something had happened. In the sitting-room Mr. Foggatt sat with his head bowed over the table, quiet and still.
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