Guy ManneringJ.M. Dent and Sons, 1912 - 427 pages |
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Page viii
... Lady Altham of Dunmain , Wexford . After his birth , they separated , and the unlucky mother was driven from home , and reduced by poverty and disease to " extreme imbecility of body and mind . " Meanwhile Lord Altham put the child into ...
... Lady Altham of Dunmain , Wexford . After his birth , they separated , and the unlucky mother was driven from home , and reduced by poverty and disease to " extreme imbecility of body and mind . " Meanwhile Lord Altham put the child into ...
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... Lady of the Lake , 1810 ; Vision of Don Roderick , 1811 ; Rokeby , 1813 ; The Bridal of Triermain , 1813 ; Abstract of Eyrbiggia Saga , in Jamieson's " Northern Antiquities , " 1814 ; Waverley , or ' Tis Sixty Years Since , 1814 ; Life ...
... Lady of the Lake , 1810 ; Vision of Don Roderick , 1811 ; Rokeby , 1813 ; The Bridal of Triermain , 1813 ; Abstract of Eyrbiggia Saga , in Jamieson's " Northern Antiquities , " 1814 ; Waverley , or ' Tis Sixty Years Since , 1814 ; Life ...
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... lady of the house was , he said , confined to her apartment , and on the point of making her husband a father for the first time , though they had been ten years married . At such an emergency , the Laird said , he feared his guest ...
... lady of the house was , he said , confined to her apartment , and on the point of making her husband a father for the first time , though they had been ten years married . At such an emergency , the Laird said , he feared his guest ...
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Walter Scott. impressed upon the mind of the anxious parent . He lost his lady while his boy was still in infancy . This calamity , I think , had been predicted by the Astrologer ; and thus his confi- dence , which , like most people of ...
Walter Scott. impressed upon the mind of the anxious parent . He lost his lady while his boy was still in infancy . This calamity , I think , had been predicted by the Astrologer ; and thus his confi- dence , which , like most people of ...
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... lady about eighteen years of age , and so lovely , that the sight of her carried off the feelings of the young stranger from the peculiarity and mystery of his own lot , and riveted his attention to everything she did or said . She ...
... lady about eighteen years of age , and so lovely , that the sight of her carried off the feelings of the young stranger from the peculiarity and mystery of his own lot , and riveted his attention to everything she did or said . She ...
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