 | Ariadne Gilbert - 1914 - 452 pages
...Laidlaw, begging him to stop. " Nay, Willie," came the heroic answer, " only see that the doors are fast. I would fain keep all the cry as well as all the wool to ourselves." One morning before breakfast he finished " Anne of Geierstein ", and, as soon as breakfast was over,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1897 - 596 pages
...audible suffering filled every pause, ' Nay, Willie,' he answered, ' only see that the doors are fast. I would fain keep all the cry as well as all the wool...but as to giving over work, that can only be when 1 am in woollen.' John Ballantyne told me, that after the first day he always took care to have a dozen... | |
 | Caroline Kane (Mills) Everett ("Mrs. Leo Everett, ") - 1920 - 150 pages
...Laidlaw begged him to stop dictating he only answered, " Nay, Willie, only see that the doors are fast. I would fain keep all the cry, as well as all the wool to ourselves, but to give over work, that can only be when I am woolen." Mme. de La Fayette lost her health* a year before... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1907 - 282 pages
...beseech him to take some rest. "Nay, Willie," was Scott's reply, " only see that the doons are fast. I would fain keep all the cry as well as all the wool...over work, that can only be when I am in woollen."* By the hands of these two secretaries, but chiefly of Laidlaw, who was always near by, by ' far the... | |
 | 1889 - 788 pages
...Laidlaw, besought him to spare himself, Scott replied, " Nay, Willie, only see that the doors are fast. I would fain keep all the cry as well as all the wool...ourselves ; but as to giving over work, that can only be done when I am in woollen." Here, too, is again displayed that tender consideration for the comfort... | |
 | 1880 - 814 pages
...audible suffering filled every pause. ' Nay, Willie,' he answered. ' only see that the doors are fast. I •would fain keep all the cry as well as all the wool to ourselves ; but as for giving over work, that can only be when I am in woollen.' " * From this time forward the brightness... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1914 - 664 pages
...Laidlaw, begging him to stop. "Nay, Willie," came the heroic answer, "only see that the doors are fast. I would fain keep all the cry as well as all the wool to ourselves." One morning before breakfast, he finished "Anne of Geierstein," and, as soon as breakfast was over,... | |
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The affectionate Laidlaw beseeching him to stop dictating, when his audible suffering filled every pause, "Nay, Willie," he answered, "only see that the doors are fast. I would fain keep all the cry as well as all the wool to ourselves; but as to giving... 
