...perfectly comfortable." * His wife hesitated a little, however, in giving her consent to this plajn. " To be sure," said she, " it is better than parting with fifteen iiundred pounds at once. But then if Mrs. Dashwood should live fifteen years, we shall be completely...

...perfectly comfortable.' " His wife hesitated a little, however, in giving her consent to this plan. " ' To be sure,' said she, ' it is better than parting...years ! my dear Fanny, — her life cannot be worth hah0 that purchase.' " ' Certainly not ; but if you observe, people always live forever when there...

...perfectly comfortable.' " His wife hesitated a little, however, in giving her consent to this plan. " ' To be sure,' said she, ' it is better than parting...live fifteen years we shall be completely taken in people always live forever when there is any annuity to be paid them, and she is very stout and healthy...

...all perfectly comfortable." His wife hesitated a little, however, in giving her consent to this plan. "To be sure," said she, "it is better than parting..."Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live forever when there is any annuity to be paid them; and she is very stout and healthy, and hardly forty....

...herself. A hundred a year would make them all perfectly comfortable. Mrs Z). (hesitating). To be sure it is better than parting with fifteen hundred pounds...live fifteen years, we shall be completely taken in. Mr D. Fifteen years ! my dear Fanny, her life cannot be worth half that purchase. Mrs D. Certainly...

...all perfectly comfortable." His wife hesitated a little, however, in giving her consent to this plan. "To be sure," said she, "it is better than parting..."Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live forever when there is any annuity to be paid them; and she is very stout and healthy, and hardly forty....

...amount first to five hundred pounds apiece, then to a hundred a year. But then, as his wife points out, "if Mrs. Dashwood should live fifteen years, we shall be completely taken in." "I believe you are right, my love; it will be better that there shall be no annuity in the case. A...

...pounds apiece it comes down to a small annuity for the widow. But annuities are so objectionable ! " ' To be sure,' said she, ' it is better than parting...we shall be completely taken in.' " ' Fifteen years 1 my dear Fanny ; her life cannot be worth half that purchase.' " ' Certainly not ; but if you observe,...

...pounds apiece it comes down to a small annuity for the widow. But annuities are so objectionable ! C( ( To be sure/ said she, 'it is better than parting with...should live fifteen years, we shall be completely taken in.3 " ' Fifteen years ! my dear Fanny ; her life cannot be worth half that purchase.' " * Certainly...

...of the annuity kind, I mean. . . . A hundred a year would make them all perfectly comfortable. . . . But then, if Mrs. Dashwood should live fifteen years, we shall be completely taken in. . . . A present of fifty pounds, now and then, will prevent their ever being distressed for money;...