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... door , it was opened by Jean Gordon . Her very remarkable figure , for she was nearly six feet high , and her equally remarkable features and dress , rendered it impossible to mistake her for a moment , though he had not seen her for ...
... door , it was opened by Jean Gordon . Her very remarkable figure , for she was nearly six feet high , and her equally remarkable features and dress , rendered it impossible to mistake her for a moment , though he had not seen her for ...
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... door with no small difficulty , and for some time knocked without producing any other answer than a duet between a female and a cur - dog , the latter yelping as if he would have barked his heart out , the other screaming in chorus . By ...
... door with no small difficulty , and for some time knocked without producing any other answer than a duet between a female and a cur - dog , the latter yelping as if he would have barked his heart out , the other screaming in chorus . By ...
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... door to ony o ' your gang - there - out sort o ' bodies . " " But what must I do then , good dame ? for I can't sleep here on the road all night . ” " Troth , I kenna , unless ye like to gae down and speer for quarters at the Place . I ...
... door to ony o ' your gang - there - out sort o ' bodies . " " But what must I do then , good dame ? for I can't sleep here on the road all night . ” " Troth , I kenna , unless ye like to gae down and speer for quarters at the Place . I ...
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... door ; and ye ' ll be come in the canny moment , I'm thinking , for the laird's servant – that's no to say his body - servant , but the helper like — rade express by this e'en to fetch the houdie , and he has just staid the drinking o ...
... door ; and ye ' ll be come in the canny moment , I'm thinking , for the laird's servant – that's no to say his body - servant , but the helper like — rade express by this e'en to fetch the houdie , and he has just staid the drinking o ...
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... door o ' the New Place . " Accordingly , leaving the ruins on the right , a few steps brought the traveller in front of a modern house of moderate size , at which his guide rapped with great importance . Mannering told his circumstances ...
... door o ' the New Place . " Accordingly , leaving the ruins on the right , a few steps brought the traveller in front of a modern house of moderate size , at which his guide rapped with great importance . Mannering told his circumstances ...
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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