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The Absentee

CHAPTER XII
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The rent was ready, in gold, and counted into his hand.
'No occasion for a receipt; for a new LASE is a receipt in full for everything.' 'Very well, sir, said the widow; 'I know nothing of law.

You know best--whatever you direct--for you are acting as a friend to us now.

My son got the attorney to draw the pair of new LASES yesterday, and here they are ready, all to signing.' Mr.Dennis said his brother must settle that part of the business, and that they must carry them up to the castle; 'but first give me the possession.' Then, as he instructed her, she gave up the key of the door to him, and a bit of the thatch of the house; and he raked out the fire, and said every living creature must go out.

'It's only form of law,' said he.
'And must my lodger get up and turn out, sir ?' said she.

'He must turn out, to be sure--not a living soul must be left in it, or it's no legal possession properly.


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