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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... round upon the dreary region , and seeing nothing but bleak fields , and naked trees , hills obscured by fogs , and flats covered with inundations , he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon him , and wished himself again ...
... round upon the dreary region , and seeing nothing but bleak fields , and naked trees , hills obscured by fogs , and flats covered with inundations , he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon him , and wished himself again ...
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... which pervaded his life . I will give the reader some insight into his state and conversation , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with THE ASTROLOGER 5.
... which pervaded his life . I will give the reader some insight into his state and conversation , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with THE ASTROLOGER 5.
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Walter Scott. and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw when he had occasion to ride in a chill evening . Godfrey Bertram , of Ellangowan , succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent - roll , like many ...
Walter Scott. and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw when he had occasion to ride in a chill evening . Godfrey Bertram , of Ellangowan , succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent - roll , like many ...
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... round window , like the single eye of a Cyclops , two windows on each side , and 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 ...
... round window , like the single eye of a Cyclops , two windows on each side , and 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 ...
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... round towers , projecting , deeply and darkly , at the extreme angles of a curtain , or flat wall , which united them , and thus protecting the main entrance , that opened through a lofty arch in the centre of the curtain into the inner ...
... round towers , projecting , deeply and darkly , at the extreme angles of a curtain , or flat wall , which united them , and thus protecting the main entrance , that opened through a lofty arch in the centre of the curtain into the inner ...
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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