The brothers-in-law had a mutual plea of expense that kept them separate.
When Anthony refused, on petition, to advance one hundred pounds to the farmer, there was ill blood to divide them.

Queen Anne's Farm missed the flourishing point by one hundred pounds exactly.

With that addition to its exchequer, it would have made head against its old enemy, Taxation, and started rejuvenescent.

But the Radicals were in power to legislate and crush agriculture, and "I've got a miser for my brother-in-law," said the farmer.

Alas! the hundred pounds to back him, he could have sowed what he pleased, and when it pleased him, partially defying the capricious clouds and their treasures, and playing tunefully upon his land, his own land.