It is an annuity of two hundred and fifty pounds.

The savings upon that annuity, and some other items to your credit, all duly carried to account, with vouchers, will place you in possession of a lump-sum of money, rather exceeding Seventeen Hundred Pounds.

I am empowered to advance the cost of your preparations for your marriage out of that fund.
All is told.' 'Will you please tell me,' said Rosa, taking the paper with a prettily knitted brow, but not opening it: 'whether I am right in what I am going to say?
I can understand what you tell me, so very much better than what I read in law-writings.

My poor papa and Eddy's father made their agreement together, as very dear and firm and fast friends, in order that we, too, might be very dear and firm and fast friends after them ?' 'Just so.' 'For the lasting good of both of us, and the lasting happiness of both of us ?' 'Just so.' 'That we might be to one another even much more than they had been to one another ?' 'Just so.' 'It was not bound upon Eddy, and it was not bound upon me, by any forfeit, in case--' 'Don't be agitated, my dear.

In the case that it brings tears into your affectionate eyes even to picture to yourself--in the case of your not marrying one another--no, no forfeiture on either side.