This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]

What could the Draycotts possibly be doing here? And where, in such a mêlée, could the Draycotts possibly be?

I tried to be a friend to Jane but we never really made friends. She was never a friend to me.

What's that gobshite talking about now?