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Updated: May 22, 2025
When they bilked her, she never complained to her husband; at the utmost she shed a few tears. In winter, too, they got along nicely together. They leased a theatre in the town for the whole winter and sublet it for short periods to a Little Russian theatrical company, to a conjuror and to the local amateur players.
Morally speaking their confinement may have been a humiliation; in sober fact it was an immense advantage; moreover, a special law of 'emphyteusis' made the leases of their homes inalienable, so long as they paid rent, and forbade the raising of the rent under any circumstances, while leaving the tenant absolute freedom to alter and improve his house as he would, together with the right to sublet it, or to sell the lease itself to any other Hebrew; and these leases became very valuable.
I am doubtful if many of these houses had any long use as the residences of single families if from the very first almost their tenants did not makeshift and take lodgers and sublet. They were built with basements, in which their servants worked and lived servants of a more submissive and troglodytic generation who did not mind stairs. That was the vision at which those industrious builders aimed.
The contract for this part of the work was sublet to an American firm Morris and Cummings, of New York. The eastern portion of the work on the canal is by far the most important, and about six miles of it is protected by large and strong embankments on each side.
But we must judge it by the custom of its age. It was often unjust and generally obstructive. But it did what neither the national government nor joint-stock companies had yet learnt to do. Monopoly went by court favor, and its rights were often scandalously let and sometimes sublet as well.
Except in the rare case where the contractors had leased arable land and sublet it to its original occupants, the treatment which seems to have been adopted for the Campanian territory there can be no question that the work which they controlled was done mainly by the hands of slaves.
"It is their Sabbath, and they are going to their barbarous worship," thought the priest, as he crossed himself. He went further into the quarter, carefully avoiding the groups that he encountered, and finally entered the dwelling of a Christian woman, who sublet rooms to Jewish tenants.
It was not until two o'clock in the afternoon that Carroll returned to headquarters. He found Leverage ready with his report. "For one thing," said the chief, "there isn't a doubt that Warren was getting ready to leave town and for good." "How so?" Leverage checked over his list. "First, he had sublet his apartment. Second, he had with him eleven hundred dollars in cash.
"Well, it's natural, then, that the most difficult pieces the biggest work will be the most difficult to sublet. Consequently when the main contractors can sublet no more, they move in and get at the difficult pieces that remain on their hands. "Now, I've seen a good bit of this line, and I've talked with the engineers.
They were to be married at the end of May, and the dentist already had his eye on a couple of rooms, part of the suite of a bankrupt photographer. They were situated in the flat, just back of his "Parlors," and he believed the photographer would sublet them furnished. McTeague and Trina had no apprehensions as to their finances. They could be sure, in fact, of a tidy little income.
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