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She received her annuity regularly for a time, but unfortunately her brother died in the West Indies, leaving his affairs in confusion, and his estate overhung by several commercial claims, which threatened to swallow up the whole.
In a word, my friend has pressing necessity for twenty pounds. You, who can give up an annuity, can get that sum for him. It's a pity you should be troubled. You seem very comfortable here, and it's worth that much to remain so. Twenty pounds, widow, is a moderate demand. You know where to apply for it; a post will bring it you. Twenty pounds!
"Yes, sir, you was so good as to say you had left me an annuity, and it was very kind of you to think of such a thing, and I'm duly thankful.
The money thus disbursed by the Irish Government was repaid to them by an annuity, payable by the tenant for forty-nine years, of 4 per cent. on a capital sum equal to twenty times the gross rental; the result being that, were the Bill passed into law, the tenant would become immediate owner of the land, subject to the payment of an annuity considerably less than the previous rent that the Irish Government would make a considerable profit on the transaction, inasmuch as it would receive from the tenant interest calculated on the basis of the gross rental, whilst it would pay to the English Government interest calculated on the basis of the net rental and that the English Government would sustain no loss if the interest were duly received by them.
She died the Christmas before last." "And how did you get to the hotel?" "I had to do something. Miss Aldridge had only her annuity. I had done everything for her, except the very hardest work, that she wouldn't let me do; and when she died, suddenly, I had to find some way of living. And somebody knew of the hotel. So I went." "Where was it?" "Oh, not so very far from here.
'David had bought an annuity for himself with his money, I know, said she, by and by. 'What did he do for you? 'Mr. Copperfield, said my mother, answering with some difficulty, 'was so considerate and good as to secure the reversion of a part of it to me. 'How much? asked Miss Betsey. 'A hundred and five pounds a year, said my mother. 'He might have done worse, said my aunt.
You have nothing to expect from my death I have not a farthing to leave you my place, you know, is only for life your mother's fortune is all in annuity, and two girls to be provided for and to live as we must live up to and beyond my income shall have nothing to leave.
"Henry Dunbar, you're a very clever fellow, and I dare say you think yourself a great deal sharper than I am; but, by Heaven, if you try any tricks with me, you'll find yourself mistaken! You must buy me an annuity. Do you understand? Before you move right or left, or say your soul's your own, you must buy me an annuity!"
I grieve to say there is no hope of your ever receiving any of your annuity!" Miss Monro looked very blank. Many happy little visions faded away in those few moments; then she roused up and said, "I am but forty; I have a good fifteen years of work in me left yet, thank God. Insolvent! Do you mean he has left no money?" "Not a farthing. The creditors may be thankful if they are fully paid."
They were married, but the Count soon intimated that he did not care for the girl if he could obtain some of her prospective fortune. He finally accepted five thousand pounds in cash and an annuity of six hundred pounds, and left for France. A divorce was obtained, and Senator Bingham was well pleased soon afterward when young Mr. Baring wooed and won his daughter.
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