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Updated: May 14, 2025
"I wish they'd pay their debts first," said Peake, with sudden savageness. "They're all right, I suppose?" said Sneyd, interested, and leaning over towards Peake. "Oh, they're all right," Peake said testily. "At least, I hope so," and he gave a short, grim laugh. "But they're uncommon slow payers. I sent 'em in an account for coal only last week three hundred and fifty pound.
They are not the payers of taxes; they are the spenders and the enjoyers of the taxes, and therefore the Government in India is in the most unfortunate position possible for the fulfilment of the great duties that must devolve upon every wise and just Government.
He was, moreover, in feeble health, and to complete his misfortunes, his devoted wife was taken from him. On this occasion a letter from eight members of the Privy Council was delivered to him: * For "the search at Mr. Bedingfeld's house," and the anonymous letter which led to it, see Calendar of State Payers, Dom. Eliz. 1581-1590, p. 648, No. 76.
The old 'National, we need but to look around us to be sure, was never more prosperous than now, while I am free to confess that my journal, 'Le Bon Sens, which has been a sickly child ever since its birth, has, within three months, tripled its number of readers, or, at least, its payers.
Our relations with the Power to which we were in effect a people in vassalage, and payers of tribute, demanded at this stage the exercise of the most cautious restraint; and finely the people responded to this demand.
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