A letter from a lawyer to say I had come in for a fortune of a million pounds?
The prospect of inheriting a million pounds was so engrossing that it was with quite a shock of surprise that Mildred perceived the old lady and her daughter retracing their steps down the drive.
But in the year 'forty-nine, he is really in possession of the fortune which he and his agents pretended to be worth ten years before--he is worth a million pounds.
Prentout, page 509, estimates the value of captures at 2 million pounds, but Mr. H.
I went back the next night and gave checks for the amount of my indebtedness--checks which had no more chance of being met than if I were to draw to-night upon the Bank of England for a million pounds.
Can you tell me of any private financier who could raise a loan of a million pounds in cash within the course of a week?
A million pounds of compensation would be paid to the burghers--a most remarkable example of a war indemnity being paid by the victors.
The mail train from the Transvaal to Cape Town was stopped at Vereeniging, and the week's shipment of gold for England, amounting to about half a million pounds, was taken by the Boer Government.
He asks for a million pounds sterling to enable him to carry out his project, and the question seems to have already been asked, Is he the person to whom a million poundsmay be entrusted?
Looking at the enormous wealth of England, a million pounds is as nothing.
If any one came and offered you a million pounds to hurt your mammie, would you do it?
You know I would n't hurt my little cubby-cub for a million pounds.
No longer was there anyone to point him out as the man who had sold for a million pounds a mine which had never belonged to him.
I think that the friendship between his murderer and Stirling Deane, who sold that mine for close upon a million pounds, is a thing that will need a little explanation.
They seemed to think so in the village, and I heard that Mr. Sarsby said his niece had come into a million pounds.
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