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It was your mother's property, and is now yours." "Oh, no, papa! You have a life-interest in it. I am surprised that you did not know that." "And I am surprised that you should be, or pretend to be, ignorant that the property stands in your name. I have no more concern in it than Miss Hunniman." "But, papa!" "We won't discuss the matter, if you please, my dear. We can gain nothing by discussion."
This year he was even more outspoken, and laid it down that even the teacher "who scrupulously abstains from political matters within his class-room, but at the same time devotes much or all of his leisure hours to political activities and agitation, and whose name and speeches are prominently before the world in connexion with political organizations and functions," fails in his duty towards his pupils; for "their minds will inevitably be attracted towards political affairs and political agitation if they evidently constitute the main life-interest and life-work of one who stands towards them in a position of authority."
I took everything into my hands, and I succeeded in obtaining for him a patrimony from M. Grimani, who still owed us the value of the furniture in my father's house, of which he had never rendered any account. He transferred to him a life-interest in a house in Venice, and two years afterwards my brother was ordained.
Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only a life-interest in it. The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, gave as much disappointment as pleasure.
Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only a life-interest in it. The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, gave as much disappointment as pleasure.
Have ye any security to offer? any expectations? any legacies, as other folk have a life-interest in at present? No; neither of them had. So Jeremiah rejoined 'Then, I suppose, I mun do as thee dost, John, and take the security of character.
So that if to-morrow I should die, you could claim, as my widow, your half of my personal property and your life-interest in my estate. And if to-morrow you should become impatient of your condition as a secreted wife, and wish to enter upon all the honors of Bradenell Hall, you have the power to do so!" "As if I would! As if it was for that I loved you! oh, Herman!" "I know you would not, love!
"I shall leave my husband a life-interest in a part of my fortune, and the reversion of the whole in case anything should happen to my son." The lawyer was a middle-aged man, with hard black eyes. While he was listening to a client, he had a habit of folding his arms tightly across his chest and crossing one leg over the other.
They assured him that, at the worst, the Courts would set aside the '46 will, and fall back for a compromise on that of '44, which gave the woman a life-interest only in the Downton estates. He had visited Bath and spent some weeks with his mother. He devoted a page or two to criticism of that fashionable city.
What, perhaps, still more gratified his natural thirst for vengeance was the fate of his rival, the husband of Amelia Lovat, Mackenzie of Fraserdale, who was attainted of high treason, and whose life-interest in the lands and barony of Lovat were forfeited and escheated to the Crown.
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