Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 - 358 pages |
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... land ; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country . He had visited , upon the day that opens our history , some monastic ruins in the county of Dumfries , and spent much of the day GUY MANNERING; ...
... land ; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country . He had visited , upon the day that opens our history , some monastic ruins in the county of Dumfries , and spent much of the day GUY MANNERING; ...
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... ruin , not a house ? " " Ah , but the lairds lived there lang syne- that's Ellengowan Auld Place ; there's a hantle bogles about it -- but ye needna be ... ruins on the right , a few steps brought the traveller in front GUY MANNERING . 13.
... ruin , not a house ? " " Ah , but the lairds lived there lang syne- that's Ellengowan Auld Place ; there's a hantle bogles about it -- but ye needna be ... ruins on the right , a few steps brought the traveller in front GUY MANNERING . 13.
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... down part of these venerable ruins , he built a narrow house of three stories height , with a front like a grenadier's cap , two windows on each side , and a door in the midst , full of all manner of cross lights . GUY MANNERING . 21.
... down part of these venerable ruins , he built a narrow house of three stories height , with a front like a grenadier's cap , two windows on each side , and a door in the midst , full of all manner of cross lights . GUY MANNERING . 21.
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... ruin ; but , as has been ob- served of his countrymen , he kept a man of business , who answered the purpose equally well . Under this gentleman's supervision small debts grew into large , interests were accumulated upon capitals ...
... ruin ; but , as has been ob- served of his countrymen , he kept a man of business , who answered the purpose equally well . Under this gentleman's supervision small debts grew into large , interests were accumulated upon capitals ...
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... ruin . Those of the higher rank , with some malignity , account- ed him already a degraded brother . The lower classes , seeing nothing enviable in his situation , niarked his embarrassments with more compassion . He was even a kind of ...
... ruin . Those of the higher rank , with some malignity , account- ed him already a degraded brother . The lower classes , seeing nothing enviable in his situation , niarked his embarrassments with more compassion . He was even a kind of ...
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ancient answered appearance Arthur Mervyn ASTROLOGER auld bairn Brown called castle Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering commanded daugh daughter Deacon dear Derncleugh Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Dunbog Ellan eyes father fear feelings flageolet frae Frank Kennedy gentleman Glossin Godfrey Bertram GUY MANNERING gypsies Harry Bertram Hazlewood head heard honour hope horse hour judicial astrology Julia Kippletringan Laird of Ellangowan land landlady look lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Morlan Mannering's Matilda maun ment Merrilies Mervyn Miss Bertram Miss Lucy Miss Mannering Morlan nering never night occasion parlour person Point of Warroch poor precentor puir racter reader ride round ruins scene Scotland seemed servant sloop sloop of war stranger supposed sure tell ther there's thing thought tion told turned vessel weel window wish wood Woodbourne ye'll young lady young Laird