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Updated: May 4, 2025
We poor foreigners lose ourselves in amazement when we hear about your English fortunes. Seven-thousand pounds a year for a lady all alone, and a beautiful house! A house so beautiful, they tell me!" "What has that to do with it?" said Harry; whereupon the count again shrugged his shoulders. "What has that to do with it? Because the man was rich he was not justified in ill-treating his wife.
But no one cares except mysel' that serve an' understand My seven-thousand horse-power here. Eh, Lord! They're grand they're grand! Uplift am I? When first in store the new-made beasties stood, Were ye cast down that breathed the Word declarin' all things good? Not so! O' that world-liftin' joy no after-fall could vex, Ye've left a glimmer still to cheer the Man the Artifex!
Pateroff was speaking of Lady Ongar in this way, and Harry hated him for doing so. "I don't want you to say any good of her," said he, "or any evil." "I certainly shall say no evil of her." "But I think you know that she has been most cruelly treated." "Well, there is about seven-thousand-pounds a year, I think! Seven-thousand a year! Not francs, but pounds!
He could have tossed a pebble into it, seven-thousand feet below, where the white foaming river came ramping through a great pile of moraine that dammed up this end of the Pass to the width of a bridle trail. The outlaws would have to cross the lake to escape from the Pass; and almost, he thought, he saw the old punt at the far end, which Wayland had said hunters sometimes used.
I'm a rich man, but Laura isn't worth a cent, in money. Young men generally get the wrong idea, that daughters of wealthy parents must also be wealthy." He was glad to hear the young man laugh. It was a good sign. "My earnings and my income amount to about seven-thousand a year; and with an object in view I can earn more. She says that will be plenty."
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