The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 4Conner & Cooke, 1833 |
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Page 39
... observed at Court on such occasions of presentation , the rest of their voyage was performed in silence . They landed at Whitehall Stairs , and entered the Palace after announcing their names , -the guards paying to Lord Glenvarloch the ...
... observed at Court on such occasions of presentation , the rest of their voyage was performed in silence . They landed at Whitehall Stairs , and entered the Palace after announcing their names , -the guards paying to Lord Glenvarloch the ...
Page 40
... observed to his introducer , that for I trow , my Lord Huntinglen , " continued he , " your ancestors , ay , and e'en your lordship's self and this lad's father , have stood front to front at the sword's point , and that is a worse ...
... observed to his introducer , that for I trow , my Lord Huntinglen , " continued he , " your ancestors , ay , and e'en your lordship's self and this lad's father , have stood front to front at the sword's point , and that is a worse ...
Page 45
... observed , that , as their business concerned Lord Glenvarloch , he had better remain , to make himself master of it ... observation , they applied themselves , with the scrivener , to look into various These naturally regarded the ...
... observed , that , as their business concerned Lord Glenvarloch , he had better remain , to make himself master of it ... observation , they applied themselves , with the scrivener , to look into various These naturally regarded the ...
Page 51
... observed by the herd of more ordinary and simple gulls , they paid him , in clumsy imitation , much real deference . The Gascon's natural for- wardness being much enhanced by these circum- stances , he was often guilty of presuming ...
... observed by the herd of more ordinary and simple gulls , they paid him , in clumsy imitation , much real deference . The Gascon's natural for- wardness being much enhanced by these circum- stances , he was often guilty of presuming ...
Page 57
... observed that his removal appeared to give some pain to John Christie , and a great deal to his cordial and officious landlady . The former , who was grave and saturnine in every thing he did , only hoped that all had been to Lord ...
... observed that his removal appeared to give some pain to John Christie , and a great deal to his cordial and officious landlady . The former , who was grave and saturnine in every thing he did , only hoped that all had been to Lord ...
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