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Updated: June 25, 2025
The rent-roll of this estate was £16,000 a year; and it was estimated that successive landlords had laid out about £250,000 in improvements which was just the sum expected to be realized by the sales.
It is a rather pleasant thing to tell a poor young woman, whom one has contrived to win without showing his rent-roll, that she has found what the world values so highly, in following the lead of her affections. That was an enjoyment I was now ready for. I began abruptly: Do you know that you are a rich young person? I know that I am very rich, she said.
The square face, with its broad, full forehead, and deep curved furrow dividing the thick straight brows, its well-shaped but prominent nose, and massive jaws and chin partially veiled by a grizzled beard that swept over his deep chest, was suggestive of ledgers rent-roll, and stock-boards, rather than æsthetics, chivalry, or sentimentality.
He was the owner of Raynham Castle, in Yorkshire; Eversleigh Manor, in Lincolnshire; and his property in those two counties constituted a rent-roll of forty thousand per annum. He was a bachelor, and having nearly reached his fiftieth year it was considered unlikely that he would marry.
Upon the determination of all leases made before the year 1690, a gentleman thinks that he has but indifferently improved his estate if he has only doubled his rent-roll.
Thus vanished like a dream the romance of my life. Indeed, but for the lurid gleam of this strange jewel, a true type and testimony of it, I might yet grow to persuade myself it was a dream, so wondrous it becomes to me in memory. Antoine de Chaulieu was the son of a poor gentleman of Normandy, with a long genealogy, a short rent-roll, and a large family.
Nevertheless, should his English rent-roll fall a little behindhand, his Dutch claim for a hundred thousand dollars was certainly in the hands of our government, and might at least be valuable to the extent of thirty pounds, which I had engaged to pay on his behalf.
I married Sir Victor Catheron for his rank and riches, his title and rent-roll I married the baronet, not the man. And it has ended thus. I am widowed on my wedding-day, cast off, forsaken. Have I not earned my fate?" She laughed drearily a short, mirthless, bitter laugh. "I don't venture to ask too many questions I don't battle with my fate; I throw up my arms and yield at once.
Thus, from being a rejected waif, the boy became the acknowledged heir to a peerage, and a long rent-roll. There were still, however, many difficulties to be surmounted. The guardians of the young Hamilton had no intention of losing the splendid prize which was almost within their grasp, and repudiated the boy's pretensions.
The business, a branch of the great New York firm founded in 1840 by an ancestor grown weary of watching the broad acres of Ruyler Manor automatically transmute themselves into the yearly rent-roll, and reverting to the energy and merchant instincts of his Dutch ancestors, had been conducted skillfully for the thirty years preceding the disaster by Price's uncle, Dryden Ruyler.
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