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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... hour the wean's born , and I'll spae its fortune . ' 66 " " Ay , but , Meg , we shall not want your assistance , for here's a student from Oxford that kens much better than you how to spae its fortune - he does it by the stars . " 66 ...
... hour the wean's born , and I'll spae its fortune . ' 66 " " Ay , but , Meg , we shall not want your assistance , for here's a student from Oxford that kens much better than you how to spae its fortune - he does it by the stars . " 66 ...
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... hours , and minutes ; Almuten , Almochoden , Anahibazon , Catahibazon ; a thousand terms of equal sound and significance , poured thick and threefold upon the unshrinking Dominie , whose stubborn incredulity bore him out against the ...
... hours , and minutes ; Almuten , Almochoden , Anahibazon , Catahibazon ; a thousand terms of equal sound and significance , poured thick and threefold upon the unshrinking Dominie , whose stubborn incredulity bore him out against the ...
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... hour and minute of the birth , requested , with becoming gravity , that the Dominie would conduct him to some place where he might have a view of the heavenly bodies . The schoolmaster , without further answer , rose and threw open a ...
... hour and minute of the birth , requested , with becoming gravity , that the Dominie would conduct him to some place where he might have a view of the heavenly bodies . The schoolmaster , without further answer , rose and threw open a ...
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... hour and moment of the nativity . Without troubling our readers with the general prognostications which judicial astrology would have inferred from these circumstances , in this diagram there was one signi- ficator which pressed ...
... hour and moment of the nativity . Without troubling our readers with the general prognostications which judicial astrology would have inferred from these circumstances , in this diagram there was one signi- ficator which pressed ...
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... hour . - Come , bless the good ship and the voyage , and be cursed to ye for a hag of Satan ! ” At this moment he noticed Mannering , who , from the position which he had taken to watch Meg Merrilies's incantations , had the appearance ...
... hour . - Come , bless the good ship and the voyage , and be cursed to ye for a hag of Satan ! ” At this moment he noticed Mannering , who , from the position which he had taken to watch Meg Merrilies's incantations , had the appearance ...
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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