I am not particularly disposed to favour a
tenant. The park would be open to him of course, and few navy officers, or men of any other description, can have had such a range; but what restrictions I might impose on the use of the pleasure-grounds, is another thing.
"Who are you?" said the new
tenant, turning very pale; poising the poker in his hand, however, and taking a very decent aim at the countenance of the figure.
I do think one is bound to do the best for one's land and
tenants, especially in these hard times."
What rejoiced him above all was to see that his
tenant, the cabaretier, was so busy he hardly knew which way to turn.
"It's wonderful," said he, "where the
tenants find the money, for their life is mere starvation.
Meanwhile the name of the new
tenants had diverted Mrs.
That was capital advice of yours, Irwine, about the dinners--to let them be as orderly and comfortable as possible, and only for the
tenants: especially as I had only a limited sum after all; for though my grandfather talked of a carte blanche, he couldn't make up his mind to trust me, when it came to the point."
Had she not come home her mother and the children might probably have been allowed to stay on as weekly
tenants. But she had been observed almost immediately on her return by some people of scrupulous character and great influence: they had seen her idling in the churchyard, restoring as well as she could with a little trowel a baby's obliterated grave.
Hodson, his hind from Mudbury, into the carriage with him, and they talked about distraining, and selling up, and draining and subsoiling, and a great deal about
tenants and farming--much more than I could understand.
Kyrle and I at once went downstairs, and agreed upon a form of letter which was to be sent round to the
tenants who had attended the false funeral, summoning them, in Mr.
I pointed to the window of the room where Little Dorrit was born, and where her father lived so long, and asked him what was the name of the lodger who
tenanted that apartment at present?
Though answered in the negative, he begged so earnestly to be permitted to visit those on the fifth floor, that, in despite of the oft-repeated assurance of the concierge that they were occupied, Dantes succeeded in inducing the man to go up to the
tenants, and ask permission for a gentleman to be allowed to look at them.