Marchmont: A Novel, Volume 2S. Low, 1796 - English fiction |
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... ad- vantageously married , notwithstanding the fmallness of her fortune ; and fuch an event was furely the most defirable both for Lady Dacres and himself . B 3 Some Some degree of perfonal indifpofition : added to the painful MARCHMONT .
... ad- vantageously married , notwithstanding the fmallness of her fortune ; and fuch an event was furely the most defirable both for Lady Dacres and himself . B 3 Some Some degree of perfonal indifpofition : added to the painful MARCHMONT .
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... fortune to the attachment of his ancestors to the Royal caufe in the trying period of 1640 , & c . and fince they have , with lefs power , always been a very loyal family , though it has happened that their fortune has , from various ...
... fortune to the attachment of his ancestors to the Royal caufe in the trying period of 1640 , & c . and fince they have , with lefs power , always been a very loyal family , though it has happened that their fortune has , from various ...
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... fortunes of that houfe they could not be ignorant ; that as to the relations of his mother , though two of her fifters had married men of high rank , he was so far from having any intereft with them , that he was not even by fight known ...
... fortunes of that houfe they could not be ignorant ; that as to the relations of his mother , though two of her fifters had married men of high rank , he was so far from having any intereft with them , that he was not even by fight known ...
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... fortune and the pe- culiar circumstances of her fituation ( held down as fhe was by the felfifh policy of Lady Dacres ) would prevent her ever marrying , the thought of paffing her life , if not always in as folitary a manner as the now ...
... fortune and the pe- culiar circumstances of her fituation ( held down as fhe was by the felfifh policy of Lady Dacres ) would prevent her ever marrying , the thought of paffing her life , if not always in as folitary a manner as the now ...
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... fortunes , were continually present to her mind ; and while little Wansford , mounted on a stick , gamboled backwards and forwards before her , fhe figured to herself what Mrs. Mofely had formerly defcribed to her , the infancy of that ...
... fortunes , were continually present to her mind ; and while little Wansford , mounted on a stick , gamboled backwards and forwards before her , fhe figured to herself what Mrs. Mofely had formerly defcribed to her , the infancy of that ...
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affiftance affured againſt alarm almoſt anfwered appeared aſk becauſe believe cauſe CHAP cife circumftances compaffion concealed confiderable converfation dear defign deſtiny Eaftwoodleigh endeavoured enquire eſcape faid Althea faid fhe fancied father fear fecure feemed feen felf fervant fhall fhe faw fhe found fhe heard fhe thought fhew fhould fifters figh filence fince firſt fituation fome fomething fometimes foon fortune friendſhip ftill fuch fuffered fure haftened heart herſelf himſelf houfe houſe huſband impoffible impriſonment increaſe ingra intereft knew Lady Dacres laft leaſt lefs liftened Madam Marchmont Mifs Dacres mind Mofely moft mont moſt mother muft muſt myſelf neceffary never notwithſtanding obfervation otherwiſe paffage paffed perfon pleaſure poffeffed poffible poor prefent purpoſe reafon refolution ſaid ſeemed ſhe Sir Audley ſpeak thea thefe ther theſe thofe thoſe underſtand unhappy uſed Vampyre vifited walk Wans Wansford whofe whoſe wifhed wiſhes young
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