Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer"Guy Mannering is set in the 1760s to 1780s, mostly in the Galloway area of southwest Scotland, but with episodes in Cumberland, Holland, and India. It tells the story of Henry "Harry" Bertram, the son of the Laird of Ellangowan, who is kidnapped at the age of five by smugglers after witnessing the murder of a customs officer. It follows the fortunes and adventures of Harry and his family in subsequent years, and the struggle over the inheritance of Ellangowan. The novel also depicts the lawlessness that existed at the time, when smugglers operated along the coast and thieves frequented the country roads." |
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... Mannering resolved , therefore , definitively to halt for the night at the first inhabited place , however poor , he might chance to reach , unless he could procure a guide to this unlucky village of Kippletringan . A miserable hut gave ...
... Mannering resolved , therefore , definitively to halt for the night at the first inhabited place , however poor , he might chance to reach , unless he could procure a guide to this unlucky village of Kippletringan . A miserable hut gave ...
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... Mannering , who was ignorant of the meaning of the phrase . " But how shall I get to the place , as you call it ? " " " Ye maun haud wessel by the end o ' the loan , and take tent o ' the jaw - hole . " " Oh , if ye get to eassel and ...
... Mannering , who was ignorant of the meaning of the phrase . " But how shall I get to the place , as you call it ? " " " Ye maun haud wessel by the end o ' the loan , and take tent o ' the jaw - hole . " " Oh , if ye get to eassel and ...
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... Mannering's arrival . Though we have said so much of the Laird himself , it still remains that we make the reader in some degree acquainted with his companion . This was Abel Sampson , commonly called , from his occupation as a ...
... Mannering's arrival . Though we have said so much of the Laird himself , it still remains that we make the reader in some degree acquainted with his companion . This was Abel Sampson , commonly called , from his occupation as a ...
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... his pittance by copying accounts and writing letters for Ellangowan . By degrees , the Laird , who was much estranged from general society , became partial to that of Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was 10 GUY MANNERING : OR ,
... his pittance by copying accounts and writing letters for Ellangowan . By degrees , the Laird , who was much estranged from general society , became partial to that of Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was 10 GUY MANNERING : OR ,
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Allonby answered appearance auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazlewood House head heard heart honour horse Julia justice justice of peace Kennedy Kippletringan Laird Liddesdale light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies Mervyn mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle naething never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thought turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker