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Updated: June 10, 2025
Our profits for the year were dazzling, and the actual growth of our beeves in the Outlet was in itself a snug fortune, while the five herds bought at the eleventh hour cleared over one hundred thousand dollars, mere pin-money.
He allows you liberally for pin-money in addition to your own small independent income. Satisfaction with that would warrant him to suppose his whole duty done by you." "We are where we were, aunty; the month has made no change," said Aminta in languor. "And you as patient as ever?" "I am supposed to have everything a woman can require." "Can he possibly think it?
"And they will cheat, till a man has to close his eyes to keep from seeing their pretty hands. And they will cry, egad, oh so touchingly, if the luck goes against them in spite of it all. Only last week I had to forgive Mrs Farnham an hundred guineas. She said she'd lost her pin-money twice over, and was like to have wept her eyes out." Thus primed in Topham's frank terms, I knew what to expect.
Pardon me, I can tell you that in fewer words. I give my daughter as dowry, forty thousand thalers, and a yearly pin-money of two thousand thalers. I will bear the expense of the wedding. But that is all. I trust that this is not Your Majesty's real intention. Baronet Hotham, I beg you will not include such a declaration in the protocol. Not include it in the protocol?
"There will be a hundred and twenty-five pounds due to me at Christmas, and I'll give you the hundred." "You're a first-rate girl, Clary, but I think that fellow Granger might give you more pin-money. Five hundred a year is a beggarly pittance for a man of his means." "It is more than I fancied I could ever want; and Daniel allows papa five hundred a year, you know Austin."
No white-goods buyer I know of ever had to build white marble libraries or present a bread-line to the city to get rid of his pin-money." "I bet you was a cute little black-eyed, red-cheeked little youngster, alrighty." "I wasn't so worse. Like I tell Dee Dee, the way she's held me down and indoors evenings, it's a wonder a kid like me grew up with any pep at all." "Poor little lady!"
After supper, the ambassador proposed a game of faro, which our beauties did not know; he called for cards, and placed one hundred Louis on the table before him; he dealt, and took care to make C C win the whole of that sum. It was the best way to make her accept it as pin-money.
And, far from saving anything by Annabella's inheritance of her pin-money, he had a positive loss to put up with, in the shape of some hundreds extracted yearly from his income, as alimony to his uncongenial wife. He is said to make use of shocking language whenever my name is mentioned, and to wish that he had been carried off by the yellow fever before he ever set eyes on the Softly family.
To these articles I assented, by the advice of my lawyers, with a view of obtaining the payment of my pin-money, which I had never received since our parting, but subsisted on the sale of my jewels, which were very considerable, and had been presented to me with full power of alienation.
Hunt and his associates, the little colony might be able to maintain itself until the return of peace. Affairs of State at Astoria. M'Dougal Proposes for the Hand of An Indian Princess Matrimonial Embassy to Comcomly. Matrimonial Notions Among the Chinooks. Settlements and Pin-Money. The Bringing Home of the Bride. A Managing Father-in-Law. Arrival of Mr. Hunt at Astoria.
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