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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... lives under a firlot . Pulling down part of these venerable ruins , he built with the stones a narrow house of three stories high , with a front like a grenadier's cap , having in the very centre a round window , like the single eye of ...
... lives under a firlot . Pulling down part of these venerable ruins , he built with the stones a narrow house of three stories high , with a front like a grenadier's cap , having in the very centre a round window , like the single eye of ...
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... live far from hereabouts - ye needna shake your 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 ...
... live far from hereabouts - ye needna shake your 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 ...
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Walter Scott. -They live , Mr. Mannering , by the shore - side , at Annan , and a mair decent , orderly couple , with six as fine bairns as ye would wish to see plash in a salt - water dub ; and little curlie Godfrey -that's the eldest ...
Walter Scott. -They live , Mr. Mannering , by the shore - side , at Annan , and a mair decent , orderly couple , with six as fine bairns as ye would wish to see plash in a salt - water dub ; and little curlie Godfrey -that's the eldest ...
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... live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language , still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names . And to yon starry world they now are gone , Spirits or gods , that used to share this earth With ...
... live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language , still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names . And to yon starry world they now are gone , Spirits or gods , that used to share this earth With ...
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... live in the meanwhile , for here's breakfast on the table , and the Dominie ready to say the grace . " up The Dominie did accordingly pronounce a benediction , that exceeded in length any speech which Mannering had yet heard him utter ...
... live in the meanwhile , for here's breakfast on the table , and the Dominie ready to say the grace . " up The Dominie did accordingly pronounce a benediction , that exceeded in length any speech which Mannering had yet heard him utter ...
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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