 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 pages
...guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...means by which he might be extricated. He then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ;... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 pages
...had got a bottle of Madeira and a " glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, and desired " he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...means by " which he might be extricated. He then told that he had a " novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked " into it, and saw its... | |
 | 1863 - 494 pages
...and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began speaking to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced. I looked into it, saw its merit, told the landlady... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...guinea, and had pot a bolUc of Madeira, and a glass before aim. I put the cork into the botUe, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the mesni oy which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 pages
...guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...means by which he might be extricated. He then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit ; told... | |
 | James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 540 pages
...guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...means by which he might be extricated. He then told me LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 436 pages
...such a friend he is now. " I put the cork into the bottle," said he afterwards to Boswell ; " desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated." Goldsmith says he has a novel ready for the press, and shows it. " I looked into it and saw its merits... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 394 pages
...R 2 and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merits; told the landlady I should soon... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 366 pages
...K 2 and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...might be extricated. He then told me that he had a noyel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merits ; told the... | |
 | 1865 - 1136 pages
...had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would he calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ;... | |
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I was dressed and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. 
