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Updated: May 3, 2025
It is true, suh, these estates were no longer in his name, but that had no bearin' on the events that followed; he ought to have owned them, and would have done so but for some vehy ungentlemanly fo'closure proceedin's which occurred immediately after the war.
The agent bowed his head, and scrutinized Miss Nancy's face with the eye of a hawk. The dear lady sank into a chair. For a moment she lost her breath. Yancey handed her a fan with a quickness of movement never seen in him before, and the colonel continued: "This will of course still leave you, Nancy, this house and about half of the farm property transferred to you by me at the fo'closure sale."
This fo'closure business has ruined haalf the gentlemen in our county, suh. But for that foolishness two thirds of our fust families would still be livin' in their homes. No, suh, strike it out!" "But, my dear Colonel, without that protecting clause you couldn't get a banker to touch your bonds with a pair of tongs. What recourse have they?" "What reco'se? Reorganization, suh!
What we owe we put off. Simple, easily understood, and honest. "Now, suh," turning to Fitz, "if after this frank statement any graspin' banker seeks to trammel this enterprise by any fo'closure clauses, he sha'n't have a bond, suh. I'll take them all myself fust." Fitz agreed to the striking out of all such harassing clauses, and the colonel continued his inspection. "One mo' and I am done, Fitz.
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