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He showed me through his unmortgaged possessions. And this is a continual experience now as I travel through the country, after these many years. I mention this incident, not to boast, but to show you that you can do the same if you will. Who are the great inventors? I remember a good illustration in a man who used to live in East Brookfield, Mass.
"Could you buy him?" she exclaimed, all flushing eagerness. "Why, yes, if I had an unmortgaged cent, Miss Sanford," he said, with a nervous laugh. She rose, her eyes and cheeks aflame, and stood before them, almost trembling, while her hands worked nervously, "Then do it! Mr. Blake. Don't let him suffer another minute! buy him for me, no matter what he costs, and then you give him to Mr. Ray.
And though the troops may possibly be raised, according to the estimate, I know not how we shall pay them, or from what fund, yet unmortgaged, the officers who will be entailed upon us, can hope to receive their half-pay.
In the hour spent with John Hunter she had learned that he had come to Kansas to open a farm on the only unmortgaged piece of property which his father had left him when he died; that his mother intended to come to him as soon as he had a house built; and by an accidental remark she had also learned that there were lots in some eastern town upon which enough money could be raised to stock the farm with calves and that it was the young man's intention to farm this land himself.
If free and unmortgaged, it might be sufficient, with proper management, and without contracting a shilling of new debt, to carry on the most vigorous war.
Believe me, love, it were wise of you to become Lady Warner, with an unmortgaged estate, and a husband who, in these Republican times, may rise to distinction. He is your only earnest admirer; and a love so steadfast, backed by a fortune so respectable, should not be discarded lightly." Over all these latter passages in her sister's letter Angela's eye ran with a scornful carelessness.
The young man shrugged his dripping shoulders and pulled the quilt tighter around them as he answered indifferently: "Not very well. Father left very little unmortgaged except mother's own property, and I thought I'd get out of Canton. It ain't easy to live around folks you know unless you have money." "But you could have worked your way through college; lots of boys do it," the girl objected.
But Jill did not stop on refusing the eligible owner of an unmortgaged estate. No! she set out to look for work off her own bat, and actually found it in that occupation which, far less paid than more, opens up a perfect vista of possible adventures under the guise of a travelling companion. She spoke French, German, and Italian like natives, which was all to the good.
The villa was the residence and also to his credit the unmortgaged property of Mr. David Barnes, a struggling but fairly prosperous coal merchant of excellent character, some means, and Methodist proclivities.
If there is a deficiency, which there always is, it is provided for in the supplies of the ensuing year. The only considerable branch of the public revenue which yet remains unmortgaged, is thus regularly spent before it comes in.
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