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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... heard his tale from the parlour , stepped forward , and welcomed the stranger hospitably to Ellangowan . The boy , made happy with half - a - crown , was dismissed to his cottage , the weary horse was conducted to a stall , and ...
... heard his tale from the parlour , stepped forward , and welcomed the stranger hospitably to Ellangowan . The boy , made happy with half - a - crown , was dismissed to his cottage , the weary horse was conducted to a stall , and ...
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... heard that he had such cases in court . Meanwhile his neigh- bours predicted his final ruin . Those of the higher rank , with some malignity , accounted him already a degraded brother . The lower classes , seeing nothing enviable in his ...
... heard that he had such cases in court . Meanwhile his neigh- bours predicted his final ruin . Those of the higher rank , with some malignity , accounted him already a degraded brother . The lower classes , seeing nothing enviable in his ...
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... heard of , for it was appealed to the House of Commons : now I should have voted there for the Laird of Balruddery ; but ye see my father was a Jacobite , and out with Kenmore , so he never took the oaths ; and I ken not weel how it was ...
... heard of , for it was appealed to the House of Commons : now I should have voted there for the Laird of Balruddery ; but ye see my father was a Jacobite , and out with Kenmore , so he never took the oaths ; and I ken not weel how it was ...
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... heard at the fair o ' Drum- shourloch . " " Troth , Laird , and there was muckle want o ' you , and the like o ' you ; for there was a whin bonnie lasses there , forbye mysell , and deil ane to gie them hansels . " " Weel , Meg , and ...
... heard at the fair o ' Drum- shourloch . " " Troth , Laird , and there was muckle want o ' you , and the like o ' you ; for there was a whin bonnie lasses there , forbye mysell , and deil ane to gie them hansels . " " Weel , Meg , and ...
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... heard from the interior of an apartment on the left hand the voice of the gipsy he had seen on the preceding evening . He soon found an aperture through which he could observe her without being himself visible ; and could not help ...
... heard from the interior of an apartment on the left hand the voice of the gipsy he had seen on the preceding evening . He soon found an aperture through which he could observe her without being himself visible ; and could not help ...
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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