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Beattie: "Soul o' my soul, I'm going to handle this case in such a way that it will stir up a smell from here to California. I'll get that little woman an alimony that will break all known records and I'll take a percentage of the gate receipts as they come in. I wouldn't trust my little client a foot away."
Out in the Territories when I meet a man I never saw before, inside of nine minutes I know his income, religion, size of collar, and his wife's temper, and how much he pays for clothes, alimony, and chewing tobacco. It's a gift with me not to be penurious with my conversation. "But this here New York was inaugurated on the idea of abstemiousness in regard to the parts of speech.
He, alarmed lest a creature apparently so irrational, should in wild rage drive him away, ruin him socially, perhaps induce a sympathetic court to award her a large part of his income as alimony, said not a word in reply. He bade his wrath wait. Later on, when the peril was over, when he had a firm grip upon the situation then he would take his revenge.
The papers were duly served upon the defendant, who assumed the name of George Frederick Johnson for the purpose of the suit. At the expiration of the time allowed in such cases for an answer to the petition, no defense had been set up. The lady's lawyer thereupon moved for the appointment of a referee, as well as for counsel fee and alimony.
You married an adventurer; he told you who he was, but you've never been able to prove it; and suddenly you are deserted by him, and on going over his wardrobe you find he has left nothing but these articles: and now you wish to sue him for a separation on the ground of desertion, and secure alimony if possible." It was a magnificent guess. "That is it precisely," said the lady.
The alternative meant a mere pittance of alimony for her; meant for him social ostracism and the small income cut in half; meant for both scandal and confusion. Said she fretfully: "Oh, I suppose we'll get along, somehow. I don't know anything about those things. I've always been looked after kept from contact with the sordid side of life."
"A woman who runs away gets no alimony," said De Gollyer loudly. "Not here, not in the effete East!" "I hadn't thought of that, either," said Lightbody, who, despite himself, could not repress a smile. De Gollyer, irritated perhaps that he should have been duped into sympathy, ran on with a little vindictiveness. "Of course that means nothing to you, dear boy. You were happy, ideally happy!
"Don't bother about that. It's all past and gone." "Well, at any rate, my marriage was the mistake of my life. I'm determined that she shan't trip me up and trim me for any alimony. And as matters stand, she can't. She left me of her own accord." "Then," said Mildred thoughtfully, "if the wife leaves of her own accord, she can't get alimony?" "Certainly not not a cent." "I supposed so," said she.
He had a dim perception of the following budget: About 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the Land Bank, about 30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near Moscow, the town house, and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts.
We fear we shall never love again, but for the sake of the Empire we will now begin to take notice once more. We will meet our bride- elect at Soissons, and escort her to Paris ourself." This was done, and on the 2nd of April, 1810, Marie-Louise became Empress of France. Josephine, meanwhile, had retired to Malmaison with alimony of 3,000,000 francs.
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