She'd allow considerable on them, but it ain't _her_ say.
Three hundred dollars!" "It's a sight of money," said Belinda Lamb.

"I s'pose you could mortgage the house, Paulina Maria, and then when Henry got his eyesight back he could work to pay it off." A deep red transfused Paulina Maria's transparent pallor, but before she could speak Ann Edwards interposed.

"Mortgage!" said she, with a sniff of her nostrils, as if she scented battle.

"Mortgage! Load a poor horse down to the ground till his legs break under him, set a baby to layin' a stone wall till he drops, but don't talk to me of mortgages; I guess I know enough about them.

My poor husband would have been alive and well to-day if it hadn't been for a mortgage.