<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Do we know if the Ramsays were
renting the house in the Hebrides, or if they owne</span><font size="4"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">d it? </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I had always assumed their ownership of the place, for a number of reasons. Yet t</span></font><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">he text says “</span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Never mind, the rent was precisely twopence half-penny; the
children loved it; it did her husband good to be three thousand, or if she must
be accurate, three hundred miles from his libraries and his lectures and his
disciples” (29)…so they were renting the property? </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:18pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16pt">I'm not finding any evidence that "rent" is another word for, say, mortgage payment....</span><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:18pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Edition I’m using:
Harcourt 1990.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:18pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:Times,serif;color:black"></span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Michael R. Schrimper<div>Ph.D. Student, Department of English</div><div>University of Colorado Boulder</div><div>Traditional Territories of the Cheyenne, Arapaho and Ute Nations</div><div><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/english/michael-schrimper" target="_blank">https://www.colorado.edu/english/michael-schrimper</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>