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The end of all this was , an inquiry what money the farmer had about him ; and an
urgent request , or command , that he would make her his purse - keeper , since
the bairns , as she called her sons , would be soon home . The poor farmer ...
The end of all this was , an inquiry what money the farmer had about him ; and an
urgent request , or command , that he would make her his purse - keeper , since
the bairns , as she called her sons , would be soon home . The poor farmer ...
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He soon found an aperture , through which he could observe her without being
himself visible ; and could not help feeling , that her figure , her employment , and
her situation , conveyed the exact impression of an ancient sibyl . She sate upon
...
He soon found an aperture , through which he could observe her without being
himself visible ; and could not help feeling , that her figure , her employment , and
her situation , conveyed the exact impression of an ancient sibyl . She sate upon
...
Page 209
He was sensible his elevation was too recent to be immediately forgotten , and
the means by which he had attained it too odious to be soon forgiven . But time ,
thought he , diminishes wonder and palliates misconduct . With the dexterity ...
He was sensible his elevation was too recent to be immediately forgotten , and
the means by which he had attained it too odious to be soon forgiven . But time ,
thought he , diminishes wonder and palliates misconduct . With the dexterity ...
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| Title | Guy Mannering Collins classics Everyman's Library. no. 133 Issue 133 of Everyman's library Library of Classics New classics-no. 618 Notes on chosen English texts |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | Collins, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 10 Dec 2019 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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