"That is very true, and, therefore, I do not know whether, upon the whole, it would not be more advisable to do something for their mother while she lives, rather than for them--something of the annuity kind I mean.--My sisters would feel the good effects of it as well as herself.
"Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them; and she is very stout and healthy, and hardly forty.
From the time of his settling in Alencon he had nobly admitted his poverty, saying that his whole fortune consisted in an
annuity of six hundred francs a year, the sole remains of his former opulence,--a property which obliged him to see his man of business (who held the
annuity papers) quarterly.
the House had never been their own and their Fortune had only been an
Annuity on their own Lives.
The stipend arising hence would hardly have indulged the schoolmaster in the luxuries of life, had he not added to this office those of clerk and barber, and had not Mr Allworthy added to the whole an
annuity of ten pounds, which the poor man received every Christmas, and with which he was enabled to cheer his heart during that sacred festival.
Miss Crawley had left her a little
annuity. She would have been content to remain in the Crawley family with Lady Jane, who was good to her and to everybody; but Lady Southdown dismissed poor Briggs as quickly as decency permitted; and Mr.
But she refused, saying she could now afford to employ an assistant, and would continue the school till she could purchase an
annuity sufficient to maintain her in comfortable lodgings; and, meantime, she would spend her vacations alternately with us and your sister, and should be quite contented if you were happy.
I'll give you an
annuity. I'll make you rich for life - rich!
It then transpired that the commissary had so far stolen a march on Mrs General as to have bought himself an
annuity some years before his marriage, and to have reserved that circumstance in mentioning, at the period of his proposal, that his income was derived from the interest of his money.
I had often heard him complain of the disproportion of his rank with his fortune; and I advised him to invest all he had in an
annuity. He did so, and thus doubled his income.
But I shall not give up my Liberty for a dirty
annuity. I shall come and go where I like.
every hatom of his worldly goods, except just a trifle, by way of remembrance, to his nephew down in -shire, and an
annuity to his wife.'