And so, while they make it quite clear that an immense fortune is to be realized here by the purchase of real estate, they leave one in the most provoking uncertainty as to the precise point at which the fortune is located.
Reid reflects on the ambiguity surrounding real estate investments in the post-war South.
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We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.
With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?
Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?