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Updated: June 4, 2025
Enclosed is your bond for the purchase-money of the little estate you bought from me last summer. I know that you have double the sum we want in ready money so I make no ceremony. Let me have the ten thousand this evening, if you can, as I wish to leave town as soon as possible. "Yours most sincerely, Now Mr. Vincent had lost, and had actually paid to Mrs.
He allowed Levy to suppose that the count might take possession of the vessel; but affecting an engagement, and standing out for terms, postponed the final settlement of the purchase-money till the next day. I was thus master of the vessel, which I felt sure was destined to serve Peschiera's infamous design.
They also stated that the purchase of the other six hundred acres of contiguous land had been completed, and sent government receipts for the purchase-money. The news contained in this letter induced Mr.
'There is your purchase-money upon the table. You can go where you will, save only upon the land of England, where you are still an outlaw under sentence. 'How have you done this, Saxon? I asked. 'Are you not afraid for yourself? 'Ho, ho! laughed the old soldier. 'I am a free man, my lad! I hold my pardon, and care not a maravedi for spy or informer.
He had still his eye upon the purchase of Ellangowan, which Mac-Morlan conceived Mr. Glossin would be compelled to part with, as some of the creditors disputed his title to retain so large a part of the purchase-money in his own hands, and his power to pay it was much questioned.
He came to me in London and offered me a concession which he said he had obtained from the Ottoman Government for the construction of a railroad from Smyrna to the Bosphorus. The documents appeared to be all right and in order, and after some negotiations he sold the concession to me and received ten thousand pounds in cash of the purchase-money in advance.
Cousrouf stands haughtily erect beside the cot on which the figure lies. "Masa, daughter of the Sheik of Praousta, confess that you are rightfully and according to the law my slave. I paid you the purchase-money, and you accepted it. I was gracious, and granted your request that you might pass the day with your father. I was a fool, and trusted to human faith.
On the purchase-money the happy pair lived for some years in great comfort, when Mr. Legard died of a brain fever; and his disconsolate widow found herself alone in the world with a beautiful little curly-headed boy, and an annuity of one thousand a year, for which her settlement had been exchanged. All the rest of the fortune was gone, a discovery not made till Mr. Legard's death.
He would not have parted with his ring; for Romola, and others to whom it was a familiar object, would be a little struck with the apparent sordidness of parting with a gem he had professedly cherished, unless he feigned as a reason the desire to make some special gift with the purchase-money; and Tito had at that moment a nauseating weariness of simulation.
My brother-in-law paid the purchase-money into the Count's own hands, by cheque, crossed on a first-class London firm where the Count kept an account to his high well-born order. Then he went away with the proud knowledge that he was owner of Schloss Lebenstein.
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