Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 3James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1817 - 358 pages |
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... circumstances by which he had been misled , and upon the whole endeavoured to express himself with such ambiguity , that , if the letter should fall into wrong hands , it would be difficult either to understand its real purport , or to ...
... circumstances by which he had been misled , and upon the whole endeavoured to express himself with such ambiguity , that , if the letter should fall into wrong hands , it would be difficult either to understand its real purport , or to ...
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... circumstances , which , if not destitute , were for the pre- sent highly embarrassing ; without the countenance of a friend within the circle of several hundred miles ; accused of a heavy crime , and , what was as bad as all the rest ...
... circumstances , which , if not destitute , were for the pre- sent highly embarrassing ; without the countenance of a friend within the circle of several hundred miles ; accused of a heavy crime , and , what was as bad as all the rest ...
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... circumstances . " " You mean to acknowledge , then , that you inflicted upon young Hazlewood of Hazlewood , that wound which endangered his life , considerably lacerated the clavicle of his right shoulder , and deposited , as the family ...
... circumstances . " " You mean to acknowledge , then , that you inflicted upon young Hazlewood of Hazlewood , that wound which endangered his life , considerably lacerated the clavicle of his right shoulder , and deposited , as the family ...
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... circumstance to be enquired into . This prisoner put into the hands of Mrs Mac - Candlish of Kipple- tringan , a parcel containing a variety of gold coins and valuable articles of differ- ent kinds . Perhaps , Sir Robert , you might ...
... circumstance to be enquired into . This prisoner put into the hands of Mrs Mac - Candlish of Kipple- tringan , a parcel containing a variety of gold coins and valuable articles of differ- ent kinds . Perhaps , Sir Robert , you might ...
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... circumstance I beg to be understood to give no positive , settled , or unalterable judgment , declaration , or opinion . I say therefore , sir , Mr Brown , we have determined , considering the un- pleasant predicament in which you now ...
... circumstance I beg to be understood to give no positive , settled , or unalterable judgment , declaration , or opinion . I say therefore , sir , Mr Brown , we have determined , considering the un- pleasant predicament in which you now ...
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acromion process Allonby ance answered arms auld Aweel Baronet better called Captain carriage castle Charles Hazlewood Colonel Mannering counsellor court-yard custom-house dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont dinna Dirk Hatteraick Dominie door eyes father favour feelings fire follow Glossin gude GUY MANNERING gypsey hand Hazlewood of Hazlewood Hazlewood-house hear heard heart Henry Bertram honour horse hour Julia kenn'd Kippletringan ladies Laird late Ellangowan Liddesdale light look Lucy Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's maun mean Meg Merrilies ment Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning murder neighbour never night ower person Pleydell Portanferry prisoner raick recollection respect ruin Sampson Scotland Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers spect suppose tell there's thing thought tion tram turn Vanbeest Brown voice weel wood Woodbourne word ye'll young Hazlewood younker
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Page 137 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Page 80 - A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Page 38 - He took his flageolet from his pocket, and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune awoke the corresponding associations of a damsel, who, close beside a fine spring about halfway down the descent, and which had once supplied the castle with water, was engaged in bleaching linen.
Page 297 - Receive our aid, and then again The story of thy life disclose. For, though seduced and led astray, Thou'st travell'd far and wander'd long; Thy God hath seen thee all the way, And all the turns that led thee wrong.
Page 37 - I remember the tune well,' he says, ' though I cannot guess what should at present so strongly recall it to my memory. ' He took his flageolet from his pocket and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune awoke the corresponding associations of a damsel.