[A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookA Perilous Secret CHAPTER VI 18/21
However, I will pass my eye over it. Where the farmer generally over-reaches us, if he draws the lease, is in the clauses that protect him on leaving.
He gets part possession for months without paying rent, and he hampers and fleeces the incoming tenant, so that you lose a year's rent or have to buy him out.
Now, let me see, that will be at the end of the document--No; it is exceedingly fair, this one." "Show it to our man of business, and let him study every line.
Set an attorney to catch an attorney." "Of course I shall submit it to our solicitor," said Walter. This was done, and the experienced practitioner read it very carefully. He pronounced it unusually equitable for a farmer's lease. "However," said he, "we might suggest that he does _all_ the repairs and draining, and that you find the materials; and also that he insures all the farm buildings.
But you can hardly stand out for the insurance if he objects.
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