And when I say
that he borrowed a good deal of money from Edward I do not
mean to say that he had more than a thousand pounds from him
during the five years that the connection lasted. Edward, of
course, did not have a great deal of money; Leonora was seeing to
that. Still, he may have had five hundred pounds a year English,
for his menus plaisirs--for his regimental subscriptions and for
keeping his men smart. Leonora hated that; she would have
preferred to buy dresses for herself or to have devoted the money
to paying off a mortgage. Still, with her sense of justice, she saw
that, since she was managing a property bringing in three
thousand a year with a view to re-establishing it as a property of
five thousand a year and since the property really, if not legally,
belonged to Edward, it was reasonable and just that Edward
should get a slice of his own. Of course she had the devil of a job.
I don't know that I have got the financial details exactly right. I am
a pretty good head at figures, but my mind, still, sometimes mixes
up pounds with dollars and I get a figure wrong. Anyhow, the
proposition was something like this: Properly worked and without
rebates to the tenants and keeping up schools and things, the
Branshaw estate should have brought in about five thousand a
year when Edward had it.
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