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"I could have given him things for the night. I wanted to talk to him about insuring my life; he knows, about that. There'll be a lot of money wanted, to pay my death-duties. And if the Radicals get in I shouldn't be surprised if they put them up fifty per cent." "I wanted to keep him," said Mrs. Pendyce, "but he went away without saying good-bye." "He's an odd fellow!" For some moments Mr.
"Ah, you think we do not pay?" he queried, his countenance brightening with the animation of debate. "My dear sir, we pay more than anyone else. Our fares are graduated, just as our death-duties are. No doubt there are some idle and stupid, thick-skinned rich fellows, who escape the ticket-collector. But for each of them there are a thousand idle poor fellows who do the same.
"Getting a little smaller and a little more respectable each time, on account of the death-duties." "It needed to get respectable." "Why? Did your people, too, once keep a shop?" "Oh, not as bad as that! They only swindled. About a hundred years ago an Elliot did something shady and founded the fortunes of our house." "I never knew any one so relentless to his ancestors.
Those who were in ignorance of the real state of affairs talked glibly of enormous death-duties which had crippled, for a time, even the immense Ogilvie estates, and had rendered it necessary for Peter to shut up the house and live economically.
"This is sheer recklessness," said Lord Newhaven, as Rachel bought an expensive tea-cosey from Fräulein. "In these days of death-duties you cannot possess four teapots, and you have already bought three teapot costumes." "That is what I am here for," said Rachel, producing a check-book. "How much did you say, Fräulein?" "Twenty-seven and seex," said Fräulein.
Meanwhile Pash worked to prove the will, pay the death-duties, and to place Sylvia in full possession of her property. He found in one of the safes the certificate of the girl's birth, and also the marriage certificate of Aaron Norman in the name of Lemuel Krill. The man evidently had his doubts of the marriage being a legal one if contracted under his alias.
The bill fixes the proportion at 1/15th, or 1 to 14, this sum being arrived at by a comparison between the amount of the income-tax, death-duties, and valuation of property in Great Britain, and the amount of the same particulars in Ireland.
He was Captain Mankeltow my Royal British Artillery captain that blew up my gun in the war, an' then tried to bury me against my religious principles . Ya-as. His father died and he got the lordship. That was about all he got by the time that your British death-duties were through with him. So he said I'd oblige him by hiring his ranch.
If indeed, for the sake of your old friendship with my father, you would retain the executorship I am sure Lord Frederick Calverly will be no sort of use! till the affairs of the will, death-duties, debts, and so on, are settled and would at the same time give up any other connection with the property and myself, I should be enormously grateful to you.
A similar impression is given by the dispatch from M. Cambon, French Ambassador to Berlin, written on July 30, 1913. He, too, finds elements working for war, and analyses them much as Baron Beyens does. There are first the "junkers," or country squires, naturally military by all their traditions, but also afraid of the death-duties "which are bound to come if peace continues."
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