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Updated: July 8, 2025
Our property is all gone except this house, plate, and furniture, and my mother's diamonds all of winch are tangible and visible, and in our own possession. We have no debts you pay house-bills monthly, and I, fortunately, have just settled off every account I have in the world, and have five hundred Spanish dollars to start anew with my savings during papa's lifetime.
Should it not be, they will have no one to look to, I expect, but myself." "They won't want much," said Jan; "just a trifle for their bonnets and shoes, and suchlike. I shall pay the house-bills, you know. In fact, I'd as soon give them enough for their clothes, as not. I dare say I should have it, even the first year, after paying expenses and old West's five hundred."
But she could reduce expenses; so the one servant went, and the house-bills grew tinier and tinier. However, they didn't "make connections," and something was wrong she wondered what. As the second summer came in they used to stroll out of their stuffy street of an evening, up St. Nicholas Avenue, to the Park, or to the Riverside Drive.
"It's not for nothing!" growled the angry father. "Are you aware, Madam, that I pay the house-bills, out of a fixed annual sum? The loss of all that wasted butter falls on me! Do you hear, Madam!" "Hold your tongue, Sir!" My Lady spoke very quietly almost in a whisper. But there was something in her look which silenced him. "Don't you see it was only a joke? And a very clever one, too!
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