When my companion's worthy father and
uncle, after seeing two or three bottles go round, left the
juveniles to themselves, the weather being hot, we adjourned
to a library which had one large window looking northwards.
After carousing here for an hour or more, I observed that a
shade had come over the aspect of my friend, who happened to
be placed immediately 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 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 good
will.' I rose to change places with him accordingly, and he
pointed out to me this hand, which, like the writing on
Belshazzar's wall, disturbed his hour of hilarity. 'Since we
sat down,' he said, 'I have been watching it--it fascinates
my eye--it never stops--page after page is finished, and
thrown on that heap of MS.
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