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"The Pensioner" is the story of an inherited debt. Two generations of one family try to do right by Miss Crewe, a governess who served the family to the best of her ability. While the family has every intention of looking after the woman, their parsimony forbids them for offering her an annuity, instead paying her 150 pounds per year in the hope of her dying before she can cost them too much money.