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Page 14
... Merrilies , and , most people would add , Dominie Sampson . The dominie is delightful and diverting when he first appears , and in his greeting of Harry Bertram at the end there is true pathos , but for some readers his oddity and his ...
... Merrilies , and , most people would add , Dominie Sampson . The dominie is delightful and diverting when he first appears , and in his greeting of Harry Bertram at the end there is true pathos , but for some readers his oddity and his ...
Page 15
... Merrilies ' words shortly before her death have something of the same quality : ' Do you see that willow - tree ? —it's but a blackened rotten stump now - I've sate under it mony a bonnie summer afternoon , when it hung its gay garlands ...
... Merrilies ' words shortly before her death have something of the same quality : ' Do you see that willow - tree ? —it's but a blackened rotten stump now - I've sate under it mony a bonnie summer afternoon , when it hung its gay garlands ...
Page 88
... Merrilies seemed particularly suspicious . There was , as the magistrate observed in his law language , damnum minatum — a damage , or evil turn , threatened , and malum secutum- —an evil of the very kind predicted shortly afterwards ...
... Merrilies seemed particularly suspicious . There was , as the magistrate observed in his law language , damnum minatum — a damage , or evil turn , threatened , and malum secutum- —an evil of the very kind predicted shortly afterwards ...
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