 I find my dogs' feet on my knees. I hear them whining and seeking me everywhere — this is nonsense, but it is what they would do could they know how things are. Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom Purdie ! this will be news to wring your heart, and many a...  The Quarterly Review - Page 403edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1900 - 622 pages
...what they would do could they know how things are. Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom Purdie I this will he news to wring your heart, and many a poor fellow's besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread. . . . For myself the magic wand of the Unknown is shivered in his grasp. He must henceforth be termed... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1901 - 630 pages
...can answer this question? Poor Will Laidlaw — poor Tom Pnrdie — such news will wring your hearts, and many a poor fellow's besides, to whom my prosperity was daily bread. Ballantyne behaves like himself, and sinks the prospect of his own ruin in contemplating mine. I tried... | |
 | Charles Josselyn - California - 1903 - 320 pages
...everywhere—this is nonsense, but it is what they would do could they know how things are. Poor Will Laidlaw! Poor Tom Purdie! this will be news to wring your heart,...fellow's besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread. Ballantyne behaves like himself, and sinks his own ruin in contemplating mine. I tried to enrich him... | |
 | Gerald Le Grys Norgate - Authors, Scottish - 1906 - 434 pages
...His regrets are more for others than himself, as his children are provided for. " Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom Purdie ! this will be news to wring your...besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread." The thought of parting with his dogs moved his own feelings more than anything. Lady Scott ("Another person")... | |
 | Florence Anne MacCunn - Authors, Scottish - 1909 - 488 pages
...conviction of disaster, he communed with his own heart. Only two names occur on it : " Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom Purdie ! this will be news to wring your...fellow's besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread." As far as one can gather from the reticence of Willie Laidlaw's letters, the blow did not fall altogether... | |
 | EDWIN WATTS CHUBB - 1910 - 426 pages
...everywhere—this is nonsense, but it is what they would do could they know how things are. Poor Will Laidlaw! Poor Tom Purdie! this will be news to wring your heart,...fellow's besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread." After touching on some other matters he comes back to Abbotsford,—"Yet to save Abbotsford I would... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - Authors, American - 1910 - 434 pages
...— this is nonsense, but it is what they would do could they know how things are. Poor Will Laidlaw! Poor Tom Purdie ! this will be news to wring your...fellow's besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread." After touching on some other matters he comes back to Abbotsford, — "Yet to save Abbotsford I would... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1927 - 968 pages
...but it is what they would do could they know how things are. Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom 1'urdie I this will be news to wring your heart, and many a...fellow's besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread. Ballantyne behaves like himself, and sinks his own ruin in contemplating mine. I tried to enrich him... | |
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