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All the land belongs either to the English government, the East India Company, or the native princes. It is let out altogether; the principal tenants divide it into small lots, and sublet these to the peasants. The fate of the latter depends entirely upon the disposition of the principal tenant.
"The family will not be home till September." "But there is some one living here?" shouted Boyce. "I live here," she said with dignity, putting back a wisp of dirty gray hair behind her ear. "It is my house. I sublet to the family." "What family?" But the old creature was not communicative. "The family that lives here," she said. "Then who plays the piano in this house?" roared Boyce. "Do you?"
"It was far from pleasant," said Noah, tapping his fingers together reflectively. "I don't want to go through it again, and if, as Raleigh suggests, history is likely to repeat herself, I'll sublet the contract to Barnum here, and let him get the chaff." "It was all right in the end, though, dad," said Shem. "We had the great laugh on 'hoi polloi' the second day out." "We did, indeed," said Noah.
The New England Council possessed neither the capital nor the popular support necessary for engaging in colonizing ventures; and during the fifteen years of its existence it did little but sublet to others the rights which it possessed.
Then it was that he wrote to Simmy Dodge, asking him to sell the furnishings and appliances in his office, sublet the rooms, and send to him as soon as possible the proceeds of the sale. He confessed frankly and in his straightforward way that he was hard up and needed the money!
Louis, then the centre of all Western commerce, had established himself in Green River Valley with a large band of expert trappers which included now famous names like Henry, Bridger, Fitzpatrick, Green, Sublet, and Beckwourth. This Suck was at the entrance to Flaming Gorge, as it has since been named.
The waves were colourless, and the Bournemouth steamer gave a further touch of insipidity, drawn up against the pier and hooting wildly for excursionists. "When there is a sublet I find that damage " "Do excuse me, but about the Porphyrion. I don't feel easy might I just bother you, Henry?" Her manner was so serious that he stopped, and asked her a little sharply what she wanted.
In answer to a question from the latter, he said that the apartment on the top floor was vacant, and had been vacant for nearly two months. The family that had occupied it, he explained, had moved away, and had requested the management of the building to sublet it. This they had not yet succeeded in doing. "May I go up and look it over?" Duvall asked.
He's going into a bank in Camden Town, he says. The salary's much lower, but he hopes to manage a branch of Dempster's Bank. Is that all right?" "Dempster! My goodness me, yes." "More right than the Porphyrion?" "Yes, yes, yes; safe as houses safer." "Very many thanks. I'm sorry if you sublet ?" "If he sublets, I shan't have the same control.
Three times he had asked her. "I got money saved up, Daisy," was his love song; "and you know how bad I want you. That store of mine ain't very big, but " "Oh, ain't it?" would be the antiphony of the unphilosophical one. "Why, I heard Wanamaker's was trying to get you to sublet part of your floor space to them for next year." Daisy passed Joe's corner every morning and evening.
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