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" I shall be well enough presently, if you will only let me sit where you are, and take my chair ; for there is a confounded hand in sight of me here, which has often bothered me before, and now it won't let me fill my glass with a goodwill. "
The Newtonian - Page 146
by Newton Abbot College - 1877
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 132

1870 - 624 pages
...The describer is a young lawyer, living close and at right angles to Scott's house in Edinburgh. ' There is a confounded hand in sight of me here, which...before, and now it won't let me fill my glass with good-will. Since we sat down, I have been watching it ; it fascinates my eye ; it never stops ; page...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart..

John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 460 pages
...opposite to myself, and said something that intimated a fear of his being unwell. " No," said he, " I shall be well enough presently, if you will only...often bothered me before, and now it won't let me fill rny glass with a good will." I rose to change places with him accordingly, and he pointed out to me...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott: In Four Volumes, Volume 2

John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 428 pages
...opposite to myself, and said something that intimated a fear of his being unwell. " No," said he, " I shall be well enough presently, if you will only let me sit where you are, and lake my chair ; for there It. 5 ia a confounded hand in sight of mo here, which has often bothered...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 608 pages
...opposite to myself, and said something that intimated a fear of his being unwell. " A'o," said he, " I shall be well enough presently, if you will only let me sit w here you are, and take my chair ; for there is a confounded hand in siijht of me here, which has...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volume 1

William Howitt - 1847 - 566 pages
...opposite to myself, and said something that intimated a fear of his being unwell. ' No,' said he, ' I shall be well enough presently, if you will only...before, and now it won't let me fill my glass with a goodwill.' I rose to change places with him accordingly, and he pointed out to me this hand, which,...
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The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 10

Walter Scott - 1847 - 612 pages
...opposite to myself, and said something that intimated a fear of his being unwell. "No,' said he, " I shall be well enough presently, if you will only...there is a confounded hand in sight of me here, which hns often bothered pie before, and now it won't let me fill my glass with a good will." I rose to cnange...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

John Gibson Lockhart - 1850 - 868 pages
...myself, and »aid something that intimated a fear of his t>eing unwell. " No," e«id he, " I «hall be well enough presently, if you will only let me sit where you arc, and take my chair; for there is a confounded hand in sight of me here, which has often bothered...
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Life of Sir Walter Scott

Xavier Donald MacLeod - 1852 - 324 pages
...shade upon his friend's face and asked if he were ill. " No," he replied, " I shall be well enough if you will only let me sit where you are, and take...now it wont let me fill my glass with a good will." The young men changed places, and Menzies pointing out the annoying hand, said, " since we sat down,...
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Life of Sir Walter Scott

Xavier Donald MacLeod - 1852 - 336 pages
...shade upon his friend's face and asked if he were ill. " No," he replied, " I shall be well enough if you will only let me sit where you are, and take...here, which has often bothered me before, and now it wout let me fill my glass with a good will." The young men changed places, and Menzies pointing out...
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Life of Sir Walter Scott

Xavier Donald MacLeod - 1852 - 326 pages
...AUTHORSHIP. Ill friend's face and asked if he were ill. " No," he replied, " I shall be well enough if you will only let me sit where you are, and take rny chair ; for there is a confounded hand in sight of me here, which has often bothered me before,...
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