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Now, with all we get for nothing for our housekeeping, as I said before, we can do very well with L500 a year, and indeed make a handsome figure. So, after allowing Sisty L150, we still have L100 to lay by for Blanche." "Stop, stop, stop!" cried the Captain in great agitation; "who told you that I had L330 a year?" "Why, Bolt, don't be angry with him." "Bolt is a blockhead.
Now, with all we get for nothing for our housekeeping, as I said before, we can do very well with L500 a year, and indeed make a handsome figure. So, after allowing Sisty L150, we still have L100 to lay by for Blanche." "Stop, stop, stop!" cried the Captain in great agitation; "who told you that I had L330 a year?" "Why, Bolt, don't be angry with him." "Bolt is a blockhead.
From L330 a year take L200, and the remainder is all my income, besides my half-pay." My mother opened her eyes, and so did I. "To that L130 add, if you please, L130 of your own. All that you have over, my dear sister, is yours or Austin's, or your boy's; but not a shilling can go to give luxuries to a miserly, battered old soldier. Do you understand me?"
"No, Roland," said my mother; "I don't understand you at all. Does not your property bring in L330 a year?" "Yes, but it has a debt of L200 a year on it," said the Captain, gloomily and reluctantly.
"No, Roland," said my mother; "I don't understand you at all. Does not your property bring in L330 a year?" "Yes, but it has a debt of L200 a year on it," said the Captain, gloomily and reluctantly.
Thus the income upon which Steele married was rather more than a thousand a-year, and Miss Scurlock's mother had an estate of about L330 a-year. Mary Scurlock had been a friend of Steele's first wife, for before marriage she recalls Steele to her mother's mind by saying, 'It is the survivor of the person to whose funeral I went in my illness.
"For," said my mother, with a pretty calculating shake of her head, and a movement of the right forefinger towards the five fingers of the left hand, "L370, the interest of Austin's fortune, and L50 that we may reckon for the rent of our house, make L420 a year. Add your L330 a year from the farm, sheep-walk, and cottages that you let, and the total is L750.
"For," said my mother, with a pretty calculating shake of her head, and a movement of the right forefinger towards the five fingers of the left hand, "L370, the interest of Austin's fortune, and L50 that we may reckon for the rent of our house, make L420 a year. Add your L330 a year from the farm, sheep-walk, and cottages that you let, and the total is L750.
Thence to Westminster Hall, where I heard an action very finely pleaded between my Lord Dorset and some other noble persons, his lady and other ladies of quality being here, and it was about; L330 per annum, that was to be paid to a poor Spittal, which was given by some of his predecessors; and given on his side.
From L330 a year take L200, and the remainder is all my income, besides my half-pay." My mother opened her eyes, and so did I. "To that L130 add, if you please, L130 of your own. All that you have over, my dear sister, is yours or Austin's, or your boy's; but not a shilling can go to give luxuries to a miserly, battered old soldier. Do you understand me?"
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