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Updated: July 20, 2025
He was supposed to own, as a gift from his dead wife, all that remained unmortgaged of a vast colonial estate on Crab Island in the bay, consisting of several thousand acres of land and water, mostly water, a manor house, once painted white, and a number of outbuildings in various stages of dilapidation and decay.
In the year 1900 74.3 per cent. of the families in the 160 cities of the United States having 25,000 or more population lived in rented houses and only 14.5 per cent. in unmortgaged homes.
When, for defraying the expense of government, a revenue is raised within the year, from the produce of free or unmortgaged taxes, a certain portion of the revenue of private people is only turned away from maintaining one species of unproductive labour, towards maintaining another.
He had rebelled at this, looking with some hostility at the well groomed men and women who accepted it with such assurance that it was for them alone, but now he realized the pettiness of that position. With a few unmortgaged dollars in his pocket, he was instantly one of them. He could stride in and use the quiet luxury of the place as his own.
Probably they hope to start a big row among us that way." "We'll await Weir's advice." "Well, I've waited all I'm going to to-night. Seems to me for a steady, quiet, self-respecting, dignified, unhooked, unmarried, unmortgaged, unromantic man he's skylarking and gallivanting around pretty late."
He put down his hat, and, approaching his father, could only echo the words, "Something I must hear?" "You should have consulted me," the count continued, speaking with great effort. "True, and I meant to do so, had I not been prevented. But the transaction was simple enough. My estate is unmortgaged.
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