What signifies winning a hundred thousand pounds, if you win them to lose them a' again ?" "What signifies it ?" replied Mowbray.

"Why, it signifies as much to a man of spirit, as having won a battle signifies to a general--no matter that he is beaten afterwards in his turn, he knows there is luck for him as well as others, and so he has spirit to try it again.

Here is the young Earl of Etherington will be amongst us in a day or two--they say he is up to every thing--if I had but five hundred to begin with, I should be soon up to him." "Mr.Mowbray," said Meiklewham, "I am sorry for ye.

I have been your house's man-of-business--I may say, in some measure, your house's servant--and now I am to see an end of it all, and just by the lad that I thought maist likely to set it up again better than ever; for, to do ye justice, you have aye had an ee to your ain interest, sae far as your lights gaed.

It brings tears into my auld een." "Never weep for the matter, Mick," answered Mowbray; "some of it will stick, my old boy, in your pockets, if not in mine--your service will not be altogether gratuitous, my old friend--the labourer is worthy of his hire." "Weel I wot is he," said the writer; "but double fees would hardly carry folk through some wark.