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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... give me a night's lodgings ? " " Troth can I no ; I am a lone woman , for James he's awa to Drumshourloch fair with the year - aulds , and I daurna for my life open the door to ony o ' your gang - there - out sort o ' bodies . " " But ...
... give me a night's lodgings ? " " Troth can I no ; I am a lone woman , for James he's awa to Drumshourloch fair with the year - aulds , and I daurna for my life open the door to ony o ' your gang - there - out sort o ' bodies . " " But ...
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... his life . I will give the reader some insight into his state and conversation , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with THE ASTROLOGER 5.
... his life . I will give the reader some insight into his state and conversation , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with THE ASTROLOGER 5.
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... gives him this character : " He was a man of eminent parts and resolution , for which reason he was chosen by the western counties one of the committee of noblemen and gentlemen , to report their griefs to the privy council of Charles ...
... gives him this character : " He was a man of eminent parts and resolution , for which reason he was chosen by the western counties one of the committee of noblemen and gentlemen , to report their griefs to the privy council of Charles ...
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... give him , and the poor for nothing ; and , to the shame of the former be it spoken , the pedagogue's gains never equalled those of a skilful ploughman . He wrote , however , a good hand , and added . something to his pittance by ...
... give him , and the poor for nothing ; and , to the shame of the former be it spoken , the pedagogue's gains never equalled those of a skilful ploughman . He wrote , however , a good hand , and added . something to his pittance by ...
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... give him credit for being half serious . As for Meg , she fixed her bewildered eyes upon the astrologer , overpowered by a jargon more mysterious than her own . Mannering pressed his advantage , and ran over all the hard terms of art ...
... give him credit for being half serious . As for Meg , she fixed her bewildered eyes upon the astrologer , overpowered by a jargon more mysterious than her own . Mannering pressed his advantage , and ran over all the hard terms of art ...
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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