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Her own death was accompanied with circumstances of brutal outrage , of which
poor Jean was in many respects wholly undeserving . She had , among other
demerits , or merits , as the reader may choose to rank it , that of being a stanch ...
Her own death was accompanied with circumstances of brutal outrage , of which
poor Jean was in many respects wholly undeserving . She had , among other
demerits , or merits , as the reader may choose to rank it , that of being a stanch ...
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How far Blackwood ' s ingenious correspondent was right , how far mistaken in
his conjecture , the reader has been informed . To pass to a character of a very
different description , Dominie Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a ...
How far Blackwood ' s ingenious correspondent was right , how far mistaken in
his conjecture , the reader has been informed . To pass to a character of a very
different description , Dominie Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a ...
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... may interest the heart and fill the eye of the reader as irresistibly as if it
respected distresses of a more dignified or refined character . These preliminary
notices concerning the tale of “ Guy Mannering , ” and some of the characters
introduced ...
... may interest the heart and fill the eye of the reader as irresistibly as if it
respected distresses of a more dignified or refined character . These preliminary
notices concerning the tale of “ Guy Mannering , ” and some of the characters
introduced ...
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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 cornfort of wrapping
his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw when he had occasion to ride in a ...
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 cornfort of wrapping
his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw when he had occasion to ride in a ...
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This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused
perhaps than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for
re - establishing the prosperity of his family . He took some land into his own ...
This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused
perhaps than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for
re - establishing the prosperity of his family . He took some land into his own ...
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