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3.1sYeah. I could buy chicken dinners three times a day.
3.24sI could buy a brand-new Studebaker with a fan on the dashboard.
3.57sI could buy my way into high-- society.
2.14sWell, I don't feel right about it,
2.4sbut I could use a nest egg for retirement.
2.74sI'd hate to wind up in one of them old folks' homes.
1.93sThen it's agreed.
3.34sOf course, we can't sell the paintings now. We'd be caught.
3.04sHow many of you are familiar with the concept of a tontine?
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2.57sAll right, Ox. Why don't you take us through it.
3sUhh, essentially, we all enter into a contract...
2.57swhereby the last surviving participant...
3.54sbecomes the sole possessor of all them "perty" pictures.
4.97sWell put, Oxford. Now remember, you can't all sign with an "X."
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2.2sSo we sealed up the paintings...
4.3sknowing only one of us would ever look upon them again.
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1.83sOx was the first to go.