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To supply his extravagance "my lord" had applied to the money lenders those sharks that in London, as elsewhere, fatten on such game. These gentry were eager to lend the young blood money upon what are known in English law as post-obits, which loans in this particular case carried the trifling interest of about 100 per cent. per annum.
I know better than they do how Reginald has run up post-obits, and as for that vulgar high-born Lady Maria they are all so full of, why, she is a Flanders mare to my Ellinor, and has not a silver penny to cross herself with, besides! I bide my time, you dear good people!"
If he had, he would go to the young men rather than you: it is evident that they would promise infinitely larger rewards than he could expect from yourself. Men are always more generous with what they expect than with what they have. All rogues know this. 'Tis the way Jews and usurers thrive upon heirs rather than possessors; 'tis the philosophy of post-obits.
If he had, he would go to the young men rather than you: it is evident that they would promise infinitely larger rewards than he could expect from yourself. Men are always more generous with what they expect than with what they have. All rogues know this. 'Tis the way Jews and usurers thrive upon heirs rather than possessors; 'tis the philosophy of post-obits.
Bonds, mortgages, post-obits, promissory notes in fact, every imaginable species of invention for raising the O'Malley exchequer for the preceding thirty years were handed about on all sides, suggesting to the mind of an uninterested observer the notion that had the aforesaid O'Malley been an independent and absolute monarch, instead of merely being the member for Galway, the kingdom over whose destinies he had been called to preside would have suffered not a little from a depreciated currency and an extravagant issue of paper.
A jointure had to be paid Lady Shelley of L500 a year. The different legacies still due in 1844 were L6,000 to Ianthe, two sums of L6,000 each to Claire, L2,000 to Hogg, L2,500 to Peacock. These various sums mounting up to L40,000, the remaining L10,000 can easily have been swallowed up by other post-obits and legal expenses.
He knows all the stables, and all the jockeys, and has all the 'information, and is a match for the best Leg at Newmarket. Nobody was ever known to be 'too much' for him at play or in the stable. Although his grandfather makes him a moderate allowance, by the aid of POST-OBITS and convenient friends he can live in a splendour becoming his rank.
He imagined that they were bluffing and took them at their word, with the result that there fell upon Clonderriff a snowstorm of documents leases and mortgages and conveyances and post-obits all the documentary débris of a crumbled estate, from the Elizabethan charter on which the first Hewish had founded Roscarna to the illiterate IOU's of Jocelyn's spider-racing days.
At this time Shelley had to raise ruinous post-obits on the family property, and for legal reasons he now thought it desirable to follow the Scotch marriage by one in the English church, and he and Harriet were re-married on March 22, 1814, at St. George's Church.
BARON. "Granted, but they have not always so much money to lend. No doubt we can get them a bargain, unless the young man is heir to some property that may soon be his in the course of nature." RANDAL. "Not soon Heaven forbid! His father is still a young man, a fine healthy man," leaning heavily on Levy's arm; "and as to post-obits "
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