Crossword-Solution: WELSHES 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Carlyle, says the _Athenaeum_ critic before quoted, divides contemporary mankind into the fools and the wise: the wise are the Carlyles, the Welshes, the Aitkens, and Edward Irving; the fools all the rest of unfortunate mortals: a Fuseli stroke of the critic rivalling any of the author criticised; yet the comment has a grain of truth.

The Welshes came here then, out o' a place they ca' Wales, in England; the Andersons came frae a place they ca' Rannoch, some gate i' the north; and your ain family came first to this country then frae some bit lairdship near Glasgow.

And, mark ye, when you’re in Aldersbury see Welshes, and tell them I’m waiting for that lease of lives.

The longer I’m waiting the longer the bill will be! I know ’em, damn ’em, though Welshes are not the worst.” When he had settled this he wanted a letter written, and Arthur sat down at the oaken bureau that stood between the windows, its faded green lining stained with the ink of a century and its pigeon-holes crammed with receipts and sample-bags.

Not he! There might be officials at the India House who knew this or that and Welshes, who had acted for him in making one purchase or another, might know a part.