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"Then they think that I am ruined!" cried Father Goriot, in an agony of jealousy and desperation. "Why, I have still thirteen hundred livres a year! Mon Dieu! Poor little girl! why did she not come to me? I would have sold my rentes; she should have had some of the principal, and I would have bought a life-annuity with the rest. My good neighbor, why did not you come to tell me of her difficulty?
He lived in comfort, indulged indeed in some amount of show; married a widow with a large life-annuity, which between them they spent entirely, and that not altogether in making friends with everlasting habitations; in a word, gazed out on the social landscape far oftener than lifted his eyes to the hills. After some ten or twelve years, a change began.
I am not thinking of myself, but of you two. Philippe is a monster," she continued, addressing her niece; "he does not love you after all that you have done for him. If you do not protect yourself against him he will bring you to beggary. Promise me to sell out your Funds and buy a life-annuity. Joseph has a good profession and he can live.
The dying man's curse had it not been fulfilled? A new occupant for the old house was found within a week after Mrs. Ashleigh had written from London to a house-agent at L , intimating her desire to dispose of the lease. Shortly before we had gone to Windermere, Miss Brabazon had become enriched by a liberal life-annuity bequeathed to her by her uncle, Sir Phelim.
Not only will he decline an examination of your accounts of guardianship, but he will beg you to invest your fortune as you think fit." "Really! Daburon, my friend, you are by no means a fool!" exclaimed the old lady. "If you prefer not to invest your fortune in a life-annuity, your son-in-law will allow you sufficient to make up what you now find wanting."
He in nowise fell into the error of strong natures who flatter themselves now and again that little souls will believe in a great soul, and are willing to barter their own lofty thoughts of the future for the small change of our life-annuity ideas.
Now, if you will subscribe to the 'Globe, and give me your personal assistance in this district on behalf of insurance, especially life-annuity, for the provinces are much attached to annuities Well, if you will do this, then we can come to an understanding about the wine. Will you take the 'Globe'?" "I stand on the globe." "Will you advance its interests in this district?" "I advance." "And?"
After two or three years, during which the young man was acquiring habits of idleness and indulgence, supposing his future secure, the Baron died, perhaps too suddenly to make full provision for him, perhaps after having kept up the appearance of wealth on a life-annuity, but, in any case, leaving very little, if any, property to Otto.
These are the two great functions and qualifications of a collegiate incorporation: one providing to each separate generation its own separate rights of heirship to all the knowledge accumulated by its predecessors, and converting a mere casual life-annuity into an estate of inheritance a mere fleeting agonisma into a ktema es ei; the other securing for this eternal dowry as wide a distribution as possible: the one function regarding the dimension of length in the endless series of ages through which it propagates its gifts; the other regarding the dimension of breadth in the large application throughout any one generation of these gifts to the public service.
Now, if you will subscribe to the 'Globe, and give me your personal assistance in this district on behalf of insurance, especially life-annuity, for the provinces are much attached to annuities Well, if you will do this, then we can come to an understanding about the wine. Will you take the 'Globe'?" "I stand on the globe." "Will you advance its interests in this district?" "I advance." "And?"
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