Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 13, 2025
And yet it all might have been averted all this solicitude about the future. Had Mrs. Bolivar Bowers taken out a policy in my company, the International Mutual Tontine Life Insurance Company of Paw Paw, Indiana, the aspect to-day would have been different, and Bolivar Bowers and his callow brood of little Bowerses would have reason to bless the rod that smote them.
I have lost my uncle's body. But then I no longer require to bury it. I have lost the tontine. 2.But I may still save that if Pitman disposes of the body, and if I can find a physician who will stick at nothing. I have lost the leather business and the rest of my uncle's succession. But not if Pitman gives the body up to the police.
"I thought you didn't want to?" "O, we're far past that," said his brother. "It's not the tontine now, it's the leather business, Johnny; it's the clothes upon our back." "Stow the slow music," said John, "and tell your story from beginning to end." Morris did as he was bid. "Well, now, what did I tell you?" cried the Great Vance, when the other had done.
In 1693 the British Government borrowed money by selling annuities on lives from infancy upward, on the basis of the average longevity. The contract was profitable. Ninety-seven years later another tontine, or scale of annuities, on the basis of the same expectation of life as in the previous century, was issued.
"Since that time, during the entire sixty-five years, when misfortune, sickness, accident, loss or death happened to any member of the Tontine group, the surviving members of the group would each receive a sheet of paper, on which was printed in large characters, the number '14, just that, nothing more." McCall stopped; his features were drawn and tense.
I've been trying to get you in all the places you should be if you're on the job. I was at the club and just got a flash that something big broke, something in connection with the Tontine group. I've been trying to get you. Where the hell were you?" "Just came from the police station a few minutes ago, chief. What is it?" "How the hell do I know what it is?
Tonti is dead, and I never saw anyone who even pretended to regret him; and, as for the tontine system, a word will suffice for all the purposes of this unvarnished narrative. The peculiar poetry and even humour of the scheme is now apparent, since it is one by which nobody concerned can possibly profit; but its fine, sportsmanlike character endeared it to our grand-parents.
"I believe I know why. At any rate this solves one thing for us. My advice is that we notify the police of the kidnapping. I do not think we can gain anything now by keeping quiet. I am also reasonably convinced that no harm can come to Thomas unless something unforeseen happens. "Furthermore, it is safe to say that in a short time we will solve the murders of the Tontine group.
He had never really expected the tontine; he had never even very definitely hoped to recover his seven thousand eight hundred pounds; he had been hurried into the whole thing by Michael's obvious dishonesty. Yes, it would probably be better to draw back from this high-flying venture, settle back on the leather business "Great God!" cried Morris, bounding in the hansom like a Jack-in-a-box.
Tonti is dead, and I never saw anyone who even pretended to regret him; and, as for the tontine system, a word will suffice for all the purposes of this unvarnished narrative. The peculiar poetry and even humour of the scheme is now apparent, since it is one by which nobody concerned can possibly profit; but its fine, sportsmanlike character endeared it to our grandparents.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking