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 146by Newton Abbot College - 1877Full view - About this book
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...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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...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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...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... | |
| 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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...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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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...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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...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... | |
| 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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