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"I'm going to the telegraph office," he said as he went out. A few days after this, he was again in the best of spirits, for there was money in his pocket. "What have you been doing?" asked Mr. Toliver. His friend laughed like a boy. "Something very imprudent, I'm sure you will say. I've mortgaged my little place down home.
He had spent four hundred thousand florins in the King's service; his estates were mortgaged to their full value; he had been obliged to sell, his family plate. He had done his best in Tourney to serve the Duchess, and he had averted the "Sicilian vespers," which had been imminent at his arrival.
Shorn of the impressive terms so beloved of law and lawyers, the document set forth that in consideration of being allowed to retain all his live-stock, wagons, and household goods, instead of merely the fixed number of cattle, horses, and wagons, and those specified household articles, exempt from seizure under the law, Dale voluntarily released to the mortgagers, without the formality of foreclosure proceedings, the mortgaged property comprising six hundred and forty acres as described hereinafter, etcetera.
"Hain't mortgaged my health. Hain't mortgaged my brains. Have them left, Deacon. Don't figger I'm clean bankrupt till them two is gone." But it was to be noticed that Scattergood toasted his bare toes a great deal during the ensuing days.
The man to whom the farm was mortgaged will add the few forlorn acres to his pasture-land, and the thistles which the man who is dead had fought so many years will march in next summer and take unmolested possession.
Biddy kept us going by her eating-house, but eventually we wanted machinery, and we mortgaged the eating-house, and the money went into that hole in the ground. But I knew we would succeed. I could hear voices call me, 'Come, come! whenever I was alone I could hear them plainly." His eyes, turned upon her, were full of mystery.
"You even got me where I can't raise the money to pay back what my boy owes you! Do you suppose anybody's fool enough to let me have a cent on this business after one look at what you got over there across the road?" "No, I don't." "No, you don't," Adams echoed, hoarsely. "What's more, you knew my house was mortgaged, and my " "I did not," Lamb interrupted, angrily.
"An' Number Ten Ranch," added Royce quickly. "And Number Ten Ranch," Packard agreed. "If we can get away with it." "Meaning what? How get away with it?" "It's mortgaged to the hilt, it seems. I don't know for how much yet. The mortgage and a lot of accrued interest has to be paid off. Just how big a job we've got to find out." "Seen your grandfather yet?" "No.
He was not a good business man, and in building an extensive hotel and barns at Wawona, before the travel to Yosemite had been greatly developed, he borrowed money, mortgaged his property and lost it all.
It takes a big company with capital to run the business of hydraulic mining as they do at Moore's Flat and North Bloomfield. Quartz mining is still worse. By the time you've sunk a shaft and put up a stamping-mill, you've mortgaged your quartz for more than it is worth, perhaps. It takes capital to run a quartz mine." "Yes," assented Brown, "this country has seen its best days."
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