8, sir; it is No.

8 you mean ?' "'It may be,' said I.'What of her, then ?' "'Oh, sir, she's gone these three days.' "'Gone!' said I, with a groan.
"'Yes, sir; she left this early on Tuesday with the same old gentleman and the old woman in a chaise-and-four.

They ordered horses at Dolgelly to meet them; but I don't know which road they took afterwards.' "I fell back on my chair unable to speak.

Here was I enacting Romeo for three mortal days to a mere company of Welsh waiters and chamber-maids, sighing, serenading, reciting, attitudinizing, rose-plucking, soliloquizing, half-suiciding, and all for the edification of a set of savages, with about as much civilization as their own goats.
"'The bill,' cried I, in a voice of thunder; 'my bill this instant.' "I had been imposed upon shamefully, grossly imposed upon, and would not remain another hour in the house.

Such were my feelings at least, and so thinking, I sent for my servant, abused him for not having my clothes ready packed.