Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...of Springhaven, which belonged to my family for centuries, before those new-fangled Darlings came. And Cheeseman, you may trust to the honour of the Carnes not to grind down a poor man who has his way to make.' Them were his words, sir; how well I recollect them." "Too well almost," replied the young man coldly, "considering how scanty was your memory just now. But it may save time, and painful efforts of your memory, if I tell you at once that I am not concerned in any way with the sentiments of my father. I owe him very little, as you must be well aware; and the matter betwixt you and me is strictly one of business. The position in which I am left is such that I must press every legal claim to the extremest. And having the option under this good document, I have determined to insist upon three-quarters of the clear proceeds of this trading-ship, from the date of the purchase until the present day, as well as the capital sum invested on this security." "Very well, sir, if you do, there is only one course left me--to go into the Court of Bankruptcy, see all my little stock-in-trade sold up, and start in life again at the age of fifty-seven, with a curse upon all old families." "Your curse, my good friend, will not add sixpence to your credit. And the heat you exhibit is not well adapted for calculations commercial. There is one other course which I am able to propose, though I will not give a promise yet to do so. A course which would relieve me from taking possession of this noble ship, which has made your fortune, and perhaps from enforcing the strict examination of your tradingbooks, to which I am entitled. But before I propose any such concession, which will be a grand abdication of rights, one or two things becom...
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