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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... heads of a numerous tribe , called Mac - Dingawaie , though they afterwards adopted the Norman surname of Bertram . They had made war , raised rebellions , been defeated , beheaded , and hanged , as became a family of importance , for ...
... heads of a numerous tribe , called Mac - Dingawaie , though they afterwards adopted the Norman surname of Bertram . They had made war , raised rebellions , been defeated , beheaded , and hanged , as became a family of importance , for ...
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... head shut the Bible stumbled down the pulpit - stairs , trampling upon the old women who generally take their station there , - and was ever after designated as a " stickit minister . " And thus he wandered back to his own country ...
... head shut the Bible stumbled down the pulpit - stairs , trampling upon the old women who generally take their station there , - and was ever after designated as a " stickit minister . " And thus he wandered back to his own country ...
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... head and groan , Dominie - I am sure the kirk dues were a ' weel paid , and what can man do mair ? -it was laid till her ere she had a sark ower her head ; and the man that she since wadded does not think her a pin the waur for the ...
... head and groan , Dominie - I am sure the kirk dues were a ' weel paid , and what can man do mair ? -it was laid till her ere she had a sark ower her head ; and the man that she since wadded does not think her a pin the waur for the ...
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... head , and while he was yet hammering out a rhyme for dwindle , the task of the sibyl was accomplished , or her wool was expended . She took the spindle , now charged with her labours , and undoing the thread , gradually measured it ...
... head , and while he was yet hammering out a rhyme for dwindle , the task of the sibyl was accomplished , or her wool was expended . She took the spindle , now charged with her labours , and undoing the thread , gradually measured it ...
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... head towards England , disappeared from the sight of the inmates of Ellangowan . He must also disappear from that of our readers , for it is to another and later period of his life that the present narrative relates . CHAPTER VI -Next ...
... head towards England , disappeared from the sight of the inmates of Ellangowan . He must also disappear from that of our readers , for it is to another and later period of his life that the present narrative relates . CHAPTER VI -Next ...
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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