Guy ManneringJ.M. Dent and Sons, 1912 - 427 pages |
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Page ix
... entered upon a career of the most dissipated and profligate conduct . We find him reduced to extreme pecuniary embarrassment , and his property became a prey to low and aban- doned associates ; one of whom , a Miss Kennedy , he ...
... entered upon a career of the most dissipated and profligate conduct . We find him reduced to extreme pecuniary embarrassment , and his property became a prey to low and aban- doned associates ; one of whom , a Miss Kennedy , he ...
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... entering the apartment , with tears congratulated his guest on his victory in the fated struggle . The young man was afterwards married to the beautiful maiden , the first sight of whom had made such an impression on him , and they were ...
... entering the apartment , with tears congratulated his guest on his victory in the fated struggle . The young man was afterwards married to the beautiful maiden , the first sight of whom had made such an impression on him , and they were ...
Page 14
... of Lochside , he had more money about his person than he cared to risk in such society . However , being naturally a bold lively - spirited man , he entered into the humour of the thing , and 14 Introduction to Guy Mannering.
... of Lochside , he had more money about his person than he cared to risk in such society . However , being naturally a bold lively - spirited man , he entered into the humour of the thing , and 14 Introduction to Guy Mannering.
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Walter Scott. he entered into the humour of the thing , and sate down to the feast , which consisted of all the varieties of game , poultry , pigs , and so forth , that could be collected by a wide and indis- criminate system of plunder ...
Walter Scott. he entered into the humour of the thing , and sate down to the feast , which consisted of all the varieties of game , poultry , pigs , and so forth , that could be collected by a wide and indis- criminate system of plunder ...
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... entered upon possession , and , in the language of Hotspur , " came me cranking in , " and cut the family out of another monstrous cantle of their remaining property . Donohoe Bertram , with somewhat of an Irish name , and somewhat of ...
... entered upon possession , and , in the language of Hotspur , " came me cranking in , " and cut the family out of another monstrous cantle of their remaining property . Donohoe Bertram , with somewhat of an Irish name , and somewhat of ...
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