The
income would be at the wife's disposal, and the principal would go to her aunt or her cousin on her death.
His
income would be reduced by three fourths, but he felt it must be done.
Having married on a narrower
income than she had been used to look forward to, she had, from the first, fancied a very strict line of economy necessary; and what was begun as a matter of prudence, soon grew into a matter of choice, as an object of that needful solicitude which there were no children to supply.
Four hundred is but a small
income to begin on indeed, but your wishes, my dear Isabella, are so moderate, you do not consider how little you ever want, my dear."
"Gambling," she would say, "dear, is good to help your
income, but not as an
income itself.
"I believe you are right, my love; it will be better that there should by no annuity in the case; whatever I may give them occasionally will be of far greater assistance than a yearly allowance, because they would only enlarge their style of living if they felt sure of a larger
income, and would not be sixpence the richer for it at the end of the year.
Bennet had no turn for economy, and her husband's love of independence had alone prevented their exceeding their
income.
He never wrote cheerfully, and he mortgaged the greater part of his
income. I don't blame him for anything he did.
Boxtel at once pictured to himself this learned man, with a capital of four hundred thousand and a yearly
income of ten thousand guilders, devoting all his intellectual and financial resources to the cultivation of the tulip.
Think of Annabella, think of the family, think of the fifty pounds--an
income, a year's
income to a prudent man.
Our family, although still rich (for my father's
income amounts to half a million), has experienced many misfortunes, and I myself was, at the age of five years, taken away by the treachery of my tutor, so that for fifteen years I have not seen the author of my existence.
To think with pleasure of his niece's husband having a large ecclesiastical
income was one thing--to make a Liberal speech was another thing; and it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.