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Pickwick's lack of enthusiasm over the hotel was not due to the hotel itself, but more on account of the weather. As a fact, it was a very important hotel in those days. Attached to it were large assembly and concert rooms, erected in 1772 by Tontine. This is the only occasion the hotel has mention in the works of Dickens, and although Mr.
Ah, friend Baker, the International Mutual Tontine has done a glorious work toward mitigating the wrath of the grim destroyer; under the grace of its soothing balm bereavement becomes an actual pleasure, death loses its sting, and the grave its victory." From this small, casual beginning followed that train of explanation and argument upon Mr.
His father, who had been Governor of Gaeta, but who had come to France in consequence of political convulsions in Naples, had earned no small reputation as a financier, and devised the form of life insurance known as the Tontine. The Prince de Conti recommended the son to La Salle; and, as the event proved, he could not have done him a better service.
They must think me dead, and are trying to deceive the world for the chance of the tontine." "By the way, how do you stand for money?" asked Michael kindly. "Pecuniarily speaking, I am rich," returned the old man with cheerfulness.
He looked up: "You know, I instituted inquiry for one Amos Brown, who is thought by some members of the Tontine group to have been the only surviving member of the group known as '14'. Several of the men told me they had reason to believe that it was he who used to send the blank sheets of paper with the number '14' on it.
A thousand pounds was the entrance fee; and Joseph Finsbury can remember to this day the visit to the lawyer's, where the members of the tontine all children like himself were assembled together, and sat in turn in the big office chair, and signed their names with the assistance of a kind old gentleman in spectacles and Wellington boots.
When Joseph Finsbury and his brother Masterman were little lads in white-frilled trousers, their father a well-to-do merchant in Cheapside caused them to join a small but rich tontine of seven-and-thirty lives.
With the death on June 19, 1829, of his father, whose last days were saddened by the knowledge of his son's disaster, the world was poorer by one castle in the air the less; for besides his natural sorrow at the death of the kind old man, who was so much softer than his wife, the dream of becoming a millionaire by means of the Tontine capital faded way, like all poor Honore's other visions.
Jimmy jerked the instrument away from his ear. The explosion kept ringing in his ear painfully. Hale repeated slowly: "One, perhaps three of the Tontine group were murdered during the past twenty-four hours." The growl that now answered him was Hite's normal voice, with the tense undertone it held when he had a big story.
It was indeed with great news that he came charged. The demise was announced of Lieutenant-General Sir Glasgow Biggar, KCSI, KCMG, etc., and the prize of the tontine now lay between the Finsbury brothers. Here was Morris's opportunity at last. The brothers had never, it is true, been cordial. When word came that Joseph was in Asia Minor, Masterman had expressed himself with irritation.
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