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The outlook for the future grew brighter with the beginning of each week; for on Monday he made his returns and sent me the proceeds of the fruit shipped previously. I was able to pay all outstanding accounts for what had been bought to stock the place, and I also induced Mr. Jones to receive the interest in advance on the mortgage he held. Then we began to hoard for winter.
"And yet you know where they are?" "I didn't say I knew of their whereabouts. But I will say that I know where to find the heir, a son." "You should go to him at once, then, and give him the opportunity to pay off that mortgage on Uncle Josiah's home." "Yes, I can do that. But it isn't so simple. Right there is where I've struck the snag that has nearly driven me insane. How to do it " "How?
"Very good," said Ida; "this day six months I shall be prepared to become your wife, Mr. Cossey. I believe," she added with a flash of bitter sarcasm, "it is the time usually allowed for the redemption of a mortgage." "You say very hard things," he answered, wincing. "Do I? I daresay. I am hard by nature. I wonder that you can wish to marry me."
"Your namesake, Peter, was something like yourself; and, when the provincial currency had depreciated fifty or seventy-five per cent., he bought it up in expectation of a rise. I have heard my grandfather say that old Peter gave his father a mortgage of this very house and land, to raise cash for his silly project.
Business details meant nothing to Edith. "I see," she kept saying, "yes, yes, I see." She wanted him to come to the point. "So I've had to mortgage the house," he concluded. "And for very little money, my dear. And a good deal of that " he cleared his throat "had to go back into the business." "I see," said Edith mechanically. Her mind was already far away, roving over her plans for the children.
Of course the mortgage is long past due, and as he needs the money, he has commissioned me to see you and inform you that he is about to foreclose, and to ask you to vacate the premises as soon as you conveniently can. I hope that I make myself reasonably clear." In a perfectly steady voice Maxwell replied: "What you say is clear enough; whether it is true is another matter. I will see Mr.
The law required him to give but thirty days' notice to his tenants, well-to-do workmen; and if all went well the building might be finished in seven months. Lady Victoria evinced something like a renewed interest in life when told that by the following winter her income would be increased; and trebled as soon as the large revenue from the building had paid off the mortgage.
He's managing director of the Great Southern Mortgage Agency. He's the man who's running the whole show on the other side and a clever man, too, don't you forget it." Ned recollected the man he had seen at the restaurant and what Nellie had said of him, two years ago. "But I can't see him without instructions. I must wire up to know what they say about it," said Ned.
He even offered to mortgage his little farm in Vermont for the amount which young slave-women of their ages would fetch. But the creditors pleaded that they were an "extra article," and would sell for more than common slaves, and must therefore be sold at auction. The uncle was therefore compelled to give them up to the officers of the law, and they were separated from him.
Several years previous to his departure, without informing his wife, he had borrowed of Ben Taylor, three hundred dollars, secured by mortgage on his house in Grass Valley.
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