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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... light grew faint and more faint , and the morass appeared blacker and blacker , our traveller questioned more closely each chance passenger on his distance from the village A " " of Kippletringan , where he proposed to quarter GUY ...
... light grew faint and more faint , and the morass appeared blacker and blacker , our traveller questioned more closely each chance passenger on his distance from the village A " " of Kippletringan , where he proposed to quarter GUY ...
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... light or two ; but , as he came up , he was disappointed to find that the gleams proceeded from some of those farm - houses which occasionally ornamented the surface of the extensive bog . At length , to complete his perplexity , he ...
... light or two ; but , as he came up , he was disappointed to find that the gleams proceeded from some of those farm - houses which occasionally ornamented the surface of the extensive bog . At length , to complete his perplexity , he ...
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... light . Hitherto nothing had broken the silence around him , but the deep cry of the bog - blitter , or bull - of - the - bog , a large species of bittern ; and the sighs of the wind as it passed along the dreary morass . To these was ...
... light . Hitherto nothing had broken the silence around him , but the deep cry of the bog - blitter , or bull - of - the - bog , a large species of bittern ; and the sighs of the wind as it passed along the dreary morass . To these was ...
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... a door in the middle , leading to a parlour and withdrawing room , full of all manner of cross lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused perhaps than our readers , and THE ASTROLOGER 7.
... a door in the middle , leading to a parlour and withdrawing room , full of all manner of cross lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused perhaps than our readers , and THE ASTROLOGER 7.
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... lights moving upon the shore , probably occasioned by the unloading a smuggling lugger from the Isle of Man , which was lying in the bay . On the light from the sashed door of the house being observed , a halloo from the vessel , of ...
... lights moving upon the shore , probably occasioned by the unloading a smuggling lugger from the Isle of Man , which was lying in the bay . On the light from the sashed door of the house being observed , a halloo from the vessel , of ...
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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