Crossword-Solution: LLOYDS 6 letters, 58 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

This plantation is situated on Wye river—the river receiving its name, doubtless, from Wales, where the Lloyds originated.

This is the great house; it is the home of the LLOYDS! Some idea of its splendor has already been given—and, it is here that we shall find that height of luxury which is the opposite of that depth of poverty and physical wretchedness that we have just now been contemplating.

The close-fisted stinginess that fed the poor slave on coarse corn-meal and tainted meat; that clothed him in crashy tow-linen, and hurried him to toil through the field, in all weathers, with wind and rain beating through his tattered garments; that scarcely gave even the young slave-mother time to nurse her hungry infant in the fence corner; wholly vanishes on approaching the sacred precincts of the great house, the home of the Lloyds.

Lurking beneath all their dishes, are invisible spirits of evil, ready to feed the self-deluded gormandizers which aches, pains, fierce temper, uncontrolled passions, dyspepsia, rheumatism, lumbago and gout; and of these the Lloyds got their full share.

Neither to the wicked, nor to the idler, is there any solid peace: _“Troubled, like the restless sea.”_ I had excellent opportunities of witnessing the restless discontent and the capricious irritation of the Lloyds.