 | American periodicals - 1876 - 880 pages
...than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand...that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1860 - 836 pages
...time I had drank my tea (about six o'clock) till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. — Letter to Cule, qth of March,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1845 - 236 pages
...I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." " The Castle of Otranto" is Walpole's... | |
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I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence,... 
