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Updated: May 21, 2025
"Sure I did," I went back, "and we're still in the Garden, aren't we? Of course, if you want to sub-let part of it and have Hep and his bride roaming moon-struck through your strawberry beds, that's up to you!"
There are some buildings, fifteen in number, of which there are new five-year leases to be signed. Your father contemplated a change in the lease provisions, but never made it. He intended that the parlors of these houses should not be sub-let, but that the tenants should be allowed to use them for reception rooms.
But then ... her lips tightened.... Anyhow, he would not be at home for Christmas since Martin's death he had sub-let the farm and was a good deal away; people said he had "come into" some money, left him by a former mistress, who had died more grateful than he deserved.
The man to whom, at the end of the first month, we tried to sub-let it, characterised it as "poky." In our letters we traversed this definition. In our hearts we agreed with it. At first, however, its size or, rather, its lack of size was one of its chief charms in Ethelbertha's eyes.
He had an idea Whitley's business was petering out. Well, it was, and he was glad enough to sub-let to Henry. Never knew, either, until after the lease was signed, who we were. Furnished kind of nice, don't you think?" "Why, Ma!" protests Rowena. Then she turns to Vee. "Of course, it'll do for a while, until we find something decent up on Riverside Drive; one with a motor entrance, you know.
First came those who owned property and sub-let it for vicious purposes, the property and purpose specified in detail; then those who were directors in corporations which had got corrupt privileges from the local boss, the privileges being carefully specified, and also the amounts of which they had robbed the city.
There is a very expressive bit of slang coming into general use in the West, which speaks of a man "biting off more than he can chew." That is what we had done. We had taken a contract that we should have divided, and sub-let the bigger half. Two minutes after the engagement became general there was no doubt that we would have been much better off if we had staid on our own side of the creek.
If I remember it didn't fill the bill because the tenant wouldn't sub-let it unfurnished. When did you get hold of this?" "Yesterday afternoon," Concepcion answered. "Quick work. But these feats can be accomplished. I've only taken it for a month. Hotels seem to be all full.
Meanwhile, she sub-let her rooms, with their precious furniture, to young people who came to New York to "write" or to "paint" who proposed to live by the sweat of the brow rather than of the hand, and who desired artistic surroundings.
In the orchards, from under masses of traveller's joy, you may pull away rotten pieces of timber that once made arbours and summer-houses. The present tenant will sub-let you the whole of Merry-Garden, if you wish, for two pounds ten shillings per annum. He is an old man, with an amazing memory and about as much sentiment as my boot.
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