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The blue eyes of the worthy Squire opened in amazement as the supposed beggar, drawing forth a well-filled but much-worn leather wallet, and taking from one of its dingy compartments the amount of the purchase-money agreed upon, afforded the astonished magistrate a glimpse of additional wealth of which the amount paid seemed but a small fraction.
Half he would be content to lose half his purchase-money; even a greater sacrifice than that he would agree to anything, indeed, that would not be utter ruin that did not involve utter beggary and destitution in old age. Three days after this conversation, I announced to him that the lady and her husband were below and desirous of seeing him. "What do they say?" he eagerly demanded.
'Why, Thady, you were telling me yesterday that Sir Condy had sold all entirely to Jason, and where then does all them guineas in the handkerchief come from? 'They are the purchase-money of my lady's jointure, says I. Judy looks a little bit puzzled at this. 'A penny for your thoughts, Judy, says my shister; 'hark, sure Sir Condy is drinking her health.
And Lousteau, on his side, was privately receiving five hundred francs of purchase-money, under the name of commission, from Fendant and Cavalier for introducing the future Sir Walter Scott to two enterprising tradesmen in search of a French Author of "Waverley." The firm of Fendant and Cavalier had started in business without any capital whatsoever.
'I thought you might wish to be aware of what I learnt from, I fear, too good authority. It appears that Mr. Dynevor paid only a part of the purchase-money of the estate, giving security for the rest on his property in Peru; and now, owing to the failure of the Equatorial Steam Navigation Company, Mr. Dynevor is, I fear, actually insolvent. 'Did you say he was ill?
Moreover, the regent did not forget himself; while his wife Metella more especially and other persons high and low closely connected with him, even freedmen and boon-companions, were sometimes allowed to purchase without competition, sometimes had the purchase-money wholly or partially remitted.
The Congress price was then two dollars, but was subsequently reduced to a dollar and a quarter, and is now 75 cents. 173,176,606 217,406,443 Deduct value of annuities, expenses of surveying, &c. &c., being the amount of purchase-money paid for same 4,243,632
"Oh, yes, I understand; keep the thing close, my dear Douce; make friends with the colonel's lawyer; play with him a little, till I can run down." "Besides, you see, you are such a good man of business, my lord that you see, that yes, really there must be time to draw out the purchase-money sell out at a prop prop " "To be sure, to be sure! Bless me, how late it is!
The University Galleries, which present an imposing front to St. Giles- street, contain, beside antique sculpture, the original models of all Chantrey's busts, and a collection of original drawings of Michael Angelo and Raffaelle, made by Sir Thomas Lawrence, and purchased after his death by the University, the present Earl of Eldon contributing two-thirds of the purchase-money.
"I had no other means," he wrote to his daughter, "of preventing the destruction of my present house as a place in which I could live, or which anybody else would take. The purchase-money is large, but I have already had such offers, that I shall not, I think, lose by it."
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