Excerpt from In the Good Time Coming
This was an arrangement eminently advantageous to both parties. The church was an immortal corporation and, consequently, her life interest never lapsed, while the lease granted to her benefactor, for a suitable considera tion, being perpetually renewable, and held to be valid by the clerical jurists of the day, became a family heritage, and no one was injured by the arrangement except the national over-lord, who lost his reversion of the estate. But that was a small matter.
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