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Updated: May 23, 2025
Let us say, then, that you have mortgaged the old home and have acquired enough fishing tackle to last you for a whole day.
We have already, sir, forty thousand seamen in our pay, to whom eight thousand more are speedily to be added: when each of these shall demand his stipend, a new burden of two hundred and eighty-eight thousand pounds must be laid upon the nation; upon a nation, whose lands are mortgaged, whose revenues are anticipated, and whose taxes cannot be borne without murmurs, nor increased without sedition.
All of human nature and the ups and downs of man are there, from secondhand lace to the mortgaged jewels of broken-down nobility, from sporting games and tickets for sale to relatives wanted, and those mysterious, suggestive, unsigned messages from home or to home. I read the news of the war. We in America did not know there was a war.
As soon as a visitor learns that the goods of a poor family are mortgaged, he should, at once, whether the company is pressing for payment or not, learn the terms of the contract, and get an opinion as to its validity from some friend who is a lawyer.
From Cadiz, Spain. Lucius Ahenobarbus soon lost so heavily that he was cursing every god that presided over the noble game. "I am ruined next Ides," he groaned. "Phormio the broker has only continued my loan at four per cent a month. All my villas and furniture are mortgaged, and will be sold at auction. Mehercle, destruction stares me in the face!"
I have left my home, I have mortgaged my estate, I have given up my comforts, and committed myself to the arms of Fortune, to bear me whithersoever she may please.
He shows his Northern visitor the scarred and wretched land; the ruined mansions, the worn-out soil and mortgaged acres, and says, This is Negro freedom! Now it happens that both master and man have just enough argument on their respective sides to make it difficult for them to understand each other.
And then, to satisfy his conscience that he was leaving no stone unturned, yet laughing at the uselessness of it, he wrote a letter to a confidant of his, formerly a colleague in the lobby, who lived in the county-seat near which Uncle Billy's mortgaged acres lay. The answer came the night after the second vote on the "Breaker." "Dear Barrett: "I agree with your grafter.
"I says to her: 'Look here, Mis' Ricker, don't you go givin' in. Your kitchen's a sight with the good things o' your hand think o' that, I told her; 'think how you mortgaged your very funeral for to-night, an' brace yourself up, An' she says, awful pitiful: 'I can't, Calliope, she says. ''T seems like this slips the pins right out. They ain't nothin' to deboo with now, anyway, she told me.
But the formalities were studiously ignored, and the two young men were put upon a footing of intimacy and encouraged to come and go as they pleased. Winton took his welcome broadly, as what lover would not? and within a week was spending most of his evenings in the Rosemary this at a time when every waking moment of the day and night was deeply mortgaged to the chance of success.
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