Guy ManneringJ.M. Dent and Sons, 1912 - 427 pages |
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... seemed involuntary , broken sleep , moonlight wanderings , and a melancholy for which he could assign no reason , seemed to threaten at once his bodily health , and the stability of his mind . The Astro- loger was consulted by letter ...
... seemed involuntary , broken sleep , moonlight wanderings , and a melancholy for which he could assign no reason , seemed to threaten at once his bodily health , and the stability of his mind . The Astro- loger was consulted by letter ...
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... seemed , by some emanation of the Evil Principle , exhorting him , like the wicked wife of Job , to curse God and die . The time at length arrived when he was to perform what was then thought a long and somewhat perilous journey , to ...
... seemed , by some emanation of the Evil Principle , exhorting him , like the wicked wife of Job , to curse God and die . The time at length arrived when he was to perform what was then thought a long and somewhat perilous journey , to ...
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... seemed determined to drive him to despair . As he combated these horrible recollections with distracted feelings , but with a resolved mind , he became aware that his arguments were answered by the sophistry of another , and that the ...
... seemed determined to drive him to despair . As he combated these horrible recollections with distracted feelings , but with a resolved mind , he became aware that his arguments were answered by the sophistry of another , and that the ...
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... seemed to proceed at a somewhat livelier pace than before , affording thereby a hope that he knew he was drawing near to his quarters for the evening . This hope , however , was not speedily accomplished , and Mannering , whose ...
... seemed to proceed at a somewhat livelier pace than before , affording thereby a hope that he knew he was drawing near to his quarters for the evening . This hope , however , was not speedily accomplished , and Mannering , whose ...
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... seemed to be fast approaching . This was no circumstance to make his mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay along the sea - beach , and were liable to be flooded by the tides , which rise with great height , and advance with ...
... seemed to be fast approaching . This was no circumstance to make his mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay along the sea - beach , and were liable to be flooded by the tides , which rise with great height , and advance with ...
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