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In the case of the Dependencies, we are Trustees, and no temptation whatever, either for ourselves or for others, would allow us to budge one inch from the straight path. Here, Lord Cromer was at his very strongest. He was an ideal Trustee. And what made this evident was the fact that he talked comparatively little about his trust, and never behaved in regard to it as a pedant or a prig.
"Squire Hall!" said he, "what's Squire Hall got to do with it? Squire Hall didn't have the use of that money. It was you had it and you have got to pay it back to me, and if you don't do it, by G , I'll have the law on you, sure as you're born." "Squire Hall's trustee I ain't your trustee," said Hiram, in the same dull voice.
He had been appointed for his services trustee to the Crown of the estate of one Macdowall of Freugh, an outlawed Galloway laird; and of this estate it was alleged that he would render no accounts, nor of the fines he had been commissioned to levy on the non-abjuring rebels.
And as to my ever again acting as his trustee; though, yes, I forgot' he made a sudden pause, and was lost for a minute in annoyed reflection 'yes, I must for a while. It can't last very long; he must return soon, and I can't well refuse to act until at least some other arrangement is made. There are quite other persons and I can't allow them to starve.
"Of course, without upsetting your mother?" He glanced at her. She blushed again. "Naturally," she said coldly. "You say you think the property is going down it is, everybody knows that and your mother thinks of collecting the rents herself.... Well, young lady, it's very difficult, very difficult, your mother being the trustee and executor."
It was in the gift of a child, for whom Sir Horace Lester was trustee, and that gentleman had written, about a fortnight before Ellen's death, to consult Mr.
From 1867 to 1871 he was a trustee of the Worcester Public Library, and he was librarian from 1871 to 1909, when he was made librarian emeritus. Mr. Green has published several books on library subjects.
So Bridget did it all corresponded peremptorily with their rather old and incompetent trustee, got all the signatures necessary out of Nelly, and carried the thing through. Again, on another and smaller occasion, Miss Martin had seen the two sisters confronted with a scandalous overcharge for the carriage of some heavy luggage from Manchester.
"But Bice will be made a sacrifice: Bice, and " she added with a guilty look, "I shall have thrown away that money, for it has not saved her." "Here is a great deal of money," said Sir Tom, drawing a letter from his pocket, "which seems also in a fair way of being thrown away." He took out the list which Lucy had given to her trustee, which Mr.
All I wanted was to ask you to act as my trustee." "Your trustee in what?" "There is a deed I have just executed conveying everything I have to you, and I want you to sell it off and dispose of it the best you can, and send me the money." "Send it to you?" "Yes, I'm going away." "Going away? Why? You are not in debt?" "I don't owe a hundred dollars." "Then why are you doing this?
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