Simon St. Maur and Stephen Huxtable and their tenants should have been able to manage perfectly well on the income produced by their nice, well-maintained, unencumbered estates. (I haven???t read the Duran yet, but I???m pretty sure Con Huxtable???s father left his estates in excellent shape.) For them, the land was a big whacking piece of income-producing capital, and everything else ??? the jewe