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... Bertram . They had made war , raised rebellions , been defeated , beheaded , and hanged , as became a family of importance , for many centuries . But they had gra- dually lost ground in the world , and , from being themselves the heads ...
... Bertram . They had made war , raised rebellions , been defeated , beheaded , and hanged , as became a family of importance , for many centuries . But they had gra- dually lost ground in the world , and , from being themselves the heads ...
Page 47
... Bertram never embraced a general or abstract idea , and his notion of the revenue was per- sonified in the commissioners , surveyors , comptrollers , and ri- ding officers , whom he happened to know " the revenue - lads can look sharp ...
... Bertram never embraced a general or abstract idea , and his notion of the revenue was per- sonified in the commissioners , surveyors , comptrollers , and ri- ding officers , whom he happened to know " the revenue - lads can look sharp ...
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... Bertram , with your worthy friend here , that I have been rather jesting with edge - tools ; and although neither ... Bertram's hand , and requested him to keep it for five years with the seal unbroken , until the month of November was ...
... Bertram , with your worthy friend here , that I have been rather jesting with edge - tools ; and although neither ... Bertram's hand , and requested him to keep it for five years with the seal unbroken , until the month of November was ...
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... Bertram of Ellangowan was able to hear the news of what had passed during her confinement , her apartment rung with all manner of gossiping respecting the handsome young student from Oxford , who had told such a fortune by the stars to ...
... Bertram of Ellangowan was able to hear the news of what had passed during her confinement , her apartment rung with all manner of gossiping respecting the handsome young student from Oxford , who had told such a fortune by the stars to ...
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... Bertram had his name inserted in a new commission of justices , issued immediately upon the sitting of the parliament . This had been the summit of Mr. Bertram's ambition ; not that he liked either the trouble or the responsibility of ...
... Bertram had his name inserted in a new commission of justices , issued immediately upon the sitting of the parliament . This had been the summit of Mr. Bertram's ambition ; not that he liked either the trouble or the responsibility of ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlies-hope Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazlewood-house head heard honour horse Julia justice justice of peace Kennedy Kippletringan Laird Liddesdale light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle naething never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger supposed tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker