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Having, therefore, passed the day with anguish in his heart and distraction in his looks, he seized at night a very large sum of money in the compting- house, and setting out he knew not whither, was heard of no more.
We maun get another subsidy frae the Commons, and that will make ae compting of it. Awa wi' it, Maxwell awa wi' it, and let it be set where Steenie and Babie Charles shall see it as they return from Richmond.
"Pray," said I, "what Company is this, the directors of which are so solicitous about the safety of strangers?" "The Potosi Mining Company," said he, "the richest in all Wales. But pray walk in and sit down, for you must be tired." The Mining Compting Room Native of Aberystwyth Story of a Bloodhound The Young Girls The Miner's Tale Gwen Frwd The Terfyn.
The bane of married happiness among the city men in general has been, that finding themselves unfit for polite life, they transferred their vanity to their ladies, dressed them up gaily, and sent them out a gallanting, while the good man was to regale with port wine or rum punch, perhaps among mean companions, after the compting house was shut.
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