Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer |
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... father's , an excellent old Highlander , without a fault , unless a preference to mountain - dew over less potent liquors be accounted one . He believed as firmly in the story , as in any part of his creed . A grave and elderly person ...
... father's , an excellent old Highlander , without a fault , unless a preference to mountain - dew over less potent liquors be accounted one . He believed as firmly in the story , as in any part of his creed . A grave and elderly person ...
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... father and his guest were made acquainted with the birth of a boy . The Astrologer on the morrow met the party who gathered around the breakfast table , with looks so grave and ominous , as to alarm the fears of the father , who had ...
... father and his guest were made acquainted with the birth of a boy . The Astrologer on the morrow met the party who gathered around the breakfast table , with looks so grave and ominous , as to alarm the fears of the father , who had ...
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... father himself . The years of infancy , childhood , and boyhood , passed as the father could have wished . A young Nazarene could not have been bred up with more rigour . All that was evil was withheld from his observation he only heard ...
... father himself . The years of infancy , childhood , and boyhood , passed as the father could have wished . A young Nazarene could not have been bred up with more rigour . All that was evil was withheld from his observation he only heard ...
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... father had com- municated concerning the purpose of his journey . He halted at length before a respectable but solitary old mansion , to which he was directed as the abode of his father's friend . The servants who came to take his horse ...
... father had com- municated concerning the purpose of his journey . He halted at length before a respectable but solitary old mansion , to which he was directed as the abode of his father's friend . The servants who came to take his horse ...
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... father's command , but it was hymns with which she accompanied the instrument . At length , on a sign from the sage , she left the room , turning on the young stranger , as she departed , a look of inexpressible anxiety and interest ...
... father's command , but it was hymns with which she accompanied the instrument . At length , on a sign from the sage , she left the room , turning on the young stranger , as she departed , a look of inexpressible anxiety and interest ...
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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