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Ballarat and Bendigo have produced the three monumental nuggets of the world, and this one is the monumentalest one of the three. The other two represent L9,000 a piece; this one a couple of thousand more. It is the Adam-nugget of this mine, and its children run up into the millions."
It contained a batch of newspapers dropped for him daily at Lewes by the coach, and not called for since last Saturday. Ah, here we are! The Times, Monday, August l9 that was the day before yesterday. Lord Nelson is arrived at Portsmouth. Then the Gentleman was right! He was here, the man his country had believed barring the passage of the Combined Squadron Vigo way.
The guineas I made, except from verse, were like the ounce of gold to the ton of ore. I no longer papered the walls with rejection forms; but this was from choice, not from necessity. I had plenty of material, had I cared to use it. I made a little money, of course. My takings for the first month amounted to L9 10s. I notched double figures in the next with Lll 1s. 6d. Then I dropped to L7 0s. 6d.
The Great Powers of Europe, in convention for the settlement of the finances of Egypt, had concluded that it would require a loan of L9,000,000 to save Egypt from bankruptcy. This loan was to be issued on an international guarantee, with an international inquiry at the end of two years into the success of the scheme. This plan of adjustment was agreed to by the House.
At present there is a writ of ejectment on the house for L9 of back rent, and he is sued for seed, got in the time of scarcity. The house is horrible there are boards with some straw on them over the beds. The children are very pretty, and as hardy as mountain goats. The father was quite an educated man, to judge from his speech.
His income had averaged L9,000 a year; his successor was to be rigidly limited to L5,000. He had but one child on whom to spend his money; Dr. Proudie had seven or eight. He had been a man of few personal expenses, and they had been confined to the tastes of a moderate gentleman; but Dr. Proudie had to maintain a position in fashionable society, and had that to do with comparatively small means.
To pay away L9,600 a year regularly out of L10,000, with the penalty of forfeiting the whole if not paid, whether crops may fail, farmers procrastinate, and timber fall in price, is to live with the sword of Damocles over one's head.
"I am Miss Hallam." "Take a seat, Miss Hallam." "You hold two notes of my brothers, one purporting to be drawn by Lord Eltham for L9,000; the other by Squire Francis Horton for L9,600." "Yes; why 'purporting?" "They are forgeries." "My ! Miss Hallam, do you know what you are saying?" "I do. My brother has left England. He is ruined." Elizabeth colored painfully, and Mr.
To pay away L9,600 a year regularly out of L10,000, with the penalty of forfeiting the whole if not paid, whether crops may fail, farmers procrastinate, and timber fall in price, is to live with the sword of Damocles over one's head.
The class teams had not yet been chosen, but every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon l9 's last year's "regulars" and "subs" met in the gymnasium to play exciting matches. Of course there were some changes in the make- up of the teams.
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