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Godfrey Bertram , of Ellangowan , succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent
- roll , like many lairds of that period . His list of forefathers ascended so high , that
they were lost in the barbarous ages of Galwegian independence ; so that his ...
Godfrey Bertram , of Ellangowan , succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent
- roll , like many lairds of that period . His list of forefathers ascended so high , that
they were lost in the barbarous ages of Galwegian independence ; so that his ...
Page 49
... I have little memory for them ; but I wish ye could have heard my father's stories
about the auld fights of the Mac - Dingawaies that ' s the Bertrams that now is -- wi
' the Irish , and wi ' the Highlanders , that came here in their berlings from Ilay ...
... I have little memory for them ; but I wish ye could have heard my father's stories
about the auld fights of the Mac - Dingawaies that ' s the Bertrams that now is -- wi
' the Irish , and wi ' the Highlanders , that came here in their berlings from Ilay ...
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I begin to think , Mr. Bertram , with your worthy friend here , that I have been
rather jesting with edge - tools ; and although neither you nor I , nor any sensible
man , can put faith in the predictions of astrology , yet as it has sometimes
happened ...
I begin to think , Mr. Bertram , with your worthy friend here , that I have been
rather jesting with edge - tools ; and although neither you nor I , nor any sensible
man , can put faith in the predictions of astrology , yet as it has sometimes
happened ...
Page 51
When Mrs. 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 ...
When Mrs. 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 ...
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Mr. Gilbert Glossin was made clerk of the peace , and Godfrey Bertram had his
name inserted in a new commission of justices ... This had been the summit of Mr.
Bertram's ambition ; not that he liked either the trouble or the responsibility of the
...
Mr. Gilbert Glossin was made clerk of the peace , and Godfrey Bertram had his
name inserted in a new commission of justices ... This had been the summit of Mr.
Bertram's ambition ; not that he liked either the trouble or the responsibility of the
...
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| Title | Guy Mannering Or, The Astrologer Volume 99 of Collection of British and American authors Volume 99 of Collection of British authors Volume 99 of Tauchnitz edition Collecttion of British authors Volume 99 of Tauchnitz edition |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | Tauchnitz, 1846 |
| Original from | Austrian National Library |
| Digitized | 27 Nov 2017 |
| Length | 467 pages |
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