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Page 133
And then ye would quarrel with these gypsies too . I expect every day to hear the
barn yard ' s in a low . " " I tell you once more , my dear , you don ' t understand
these things and there ' s Frank Kennedy coming galloping up the avenue .
And then ye would quarrel with these gypsies too . I expect every day to hear the
barn yard ' s in a low . " " I tell you once more , my dear , you don ' t understand
these things and there ' s Frank Kennedy coming galloping up the avenue .
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I expect him every moment , my dear , " said the Laird ; " perhaps he is bringing
some of the officers of the sloop with him . ” " My stars , Mr Bertram ! why did not
ye tell me this before , that we might have had the large round table ? - - and then
...
I expect him every moment , my dear , " said the Laird ; " perhaps he is bringing
some of the officers of the sloop with him . ” " My stars , Mr Bertram ! why did not
ye tell me this before , that we might have had the large round table ? - - and then
...
Page 206
But I will spare you at present , as I expect a person to speak about a purchase of
property now open in this part of the country . It is a place to which I have a foolish
partiality , and I hope my purchasing may be convenient to those who are ...
But I will spare you at present , as I expect a person to speak about a purchase of
property now open in this part of the country . It is a place to which I have a foolish
partiality , and I hope my purchasing may be convenient to those who are ...
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She was looking , from time to time , anxiously towards the ave . nue , as if
expecting the post - chaise ; and between whiles busied herself in adjusting the
blankets , so as to protect her father from the cold , and in answering enquiries ,
which ...
She was looking , from time to time , anxiously towards the ave . nue , as if
expecting the post - chaise ; and between whiles busied herself in adjusting the
blankets , so as to protect her father from the cold , and in answering enquiries ,
which ...
Page 227
bring the highest price the state of the market will admit , and this is surely no time
to expect it ~ I will take the respon . sibility upon myself . ” Glossin left the room
and the house too . with secrecy and dispatch ; and it was probably well for him ...
bring the highest price the state of the market will admit , and this is surely no time
to expect it ~ I will take the respon . sibility upon myself . ” Glossin left the room
and the house too . with secrecy and dispatch ; and it was probably well for him ...
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Page 240 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 49 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Page 100 - These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; fathers incestuously accompanying their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the...
Page 125 - I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." So saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand, and flung it into the road. Margaret of Anjou, bestowing on her triumphant foes her keen-edged malediction, could not have turned from them with a gesture more proudly contemptuous. The Laird was clearing his voice to speak, and thrusting his hand in his pocket to find...
Page 85 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 84 - And then the justice. In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut. Full ot wise saws and modern instances, And so he plays his part.
Page 64 - Twist ye, twine ye ! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope and fear, and peace and strife, In the thread of human life.
Page 240 - I'll be no burden — I have thought how to prevent that. But, as Ruth said unto Naomi, ' Entreat me not to leave thee, nor to depart from thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou dwellest I will dwell ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God shall be my God. Where thou 117 diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death do part thee and me.
Page 236 - My gold is gone, my money is spent, My land now take it unto thee. Give me thy gold, good John o' the Scales, And thine for aye my land shall be. Then John he did him to record draw, And John he caste him a gods.pennie; But for every pounde that John agreed, The land, I wis, was well worth three.
Page 124 - Yes ; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o' their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan.
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| Title | Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1 Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Contributor | James Ballantyne and Co |
| Publisher | James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 358 pages |
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