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"We've got a right, you and I, to whatever Morry left behind, and whatever happens I mean to have my share. Look around you!" It was not an inspiring spectacle. The room was dirty, and almost devoid of furniture. "All that I've had out of it so far," he declared, "is free quarters here. The rent's paid up to the end of the year. I've had to sell the furniture bit by bit to keep alive.
Ten thousand a year! it dings Balmawhapple out and out a year's rent's worth a' Balmawhapple, fee and life-rent! Lord make us thankful! To turn the current of his feelings, Edward inquired if he had heard anything lately of the Chieftain of Glennaquoich. 'Not one word, answered Macwheeble, 'but that he was still in Carlisle Castle, and was soon to be panelled for his life.
Ten thousand a year! it dings Balmawhapple out and out a year's rent's worth a' Balmawhapple, fee and life-rent! Lord make us thankful! To turn the current of his feelings, Edward inquired if he had heard anything lately of the Chieftain of Glennaquoich. 'Not one word, answered Macwheeble, 'but that he was still in Carlisle Castle, and was soon to be panelled for his life.
"Hut, divil a much time he has to do aither well or ill, yit. There was four tenants on Tubber Derg since you left it, an' he's the fifth. It's hard to say how he'll do; but I believe he's the best o' thim, for so far. That may be owin' to the landlord. The rent's let down to him; an' I think he'll be able to take bread, an' good bread too, out of it." "God send, poor man!"
They ought've put a few sticks of dynamite in her and blown her to pieces ages ago. She's forty years old if she's a day her old planks rotten. They won't keep her afloat over-night if they're out in this. Why d'y's'pose people leave a good lively little city like Halifax to go to a place like Canso? Why?" Andie Howe happened to be within hearing, and "Maybe the rent's cheaper," suggested Andie.
The site you've fixed on, Sir, he said, "is the cheapest we've got. Sites at the top of the slope are dearer by a good bit." "Mind," said Soames, "I've not decided; it's quite possible I shan't build at all. The ground rent's very high." "Well, Mr. Forsyte, I shall be sorry if you go off, and I think you'll make a mistake, Sir.
Ten thousand a year! it dings Balmawhapple out and out a year's rent's worth a' Balmawhapple, fee and life-rent! Lord make us thankful! To turn the current of his feelings, Edward inquired if he had heard anything lately of the Chieftain of Glennaquoich. 'Not one word, answered Macwheeble, 'but that he was still in Carlisle Castle, and was soon to be panelled for his life.
"Oh, don't be ashamed there's no strangeness in bringing money or taking it," said Mr. Nicholas Garraghty, holding out his hand. "Is this the proper compliment?" "I hope so, sir: your honour knows best." "Very well," slipping it into his private purse. "Now what's your business?" "The lases to sign the rent's all paid up." "Leases! Why, woman, is the possession given up?"
Observing signs of a renewal of the storm of protests, Owen hurriedly concluded: 'Whether it's right or wrong, you can't deny that the fact that this small minority possesses nearly all the land of the country is one of the principal causes of the poverty of the majority. 'Well, that seems true enough, said Easton, slowly. 'The rent's the biggest item a workin' man's got to pay.
Dalley's and I lost it, too, I was that ashamed I couldn't tell him. So we moved down here to this house, for I'd saved a little money, and grandaddy was pleased because he said it was a home of our own again, and he didn't seem to mind the water coming in on the bed. But the rent's awful dear, and the man that owns it he said he'd send me to jail if I didn't pay him next time.
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