Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer |
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Page 4
... light wanderings , and a melancholy for which he could assign no reason , seemed to threaten at once his bodily health , and the stability of his mind . The Astrologer was consulted by letter , and returned for answer , that this fitful ...
... light wanderings , and a melancholy for which he could assign no reason , seemed to threaten at once his bodily health , and the stability of his mind . The Astrologer was consulted by letter , and returned for answer , that this fitful ...
Page 7
... light , was , therefore , deservedly left a prey to the Prince of Darkness . As the fated and influential hour rolled on , the terrors of the hateful Presence grew more confounding to the mortal senses of the victim , and the knot of ...
... light , was , therefore , deservedly left a prey to the Prince of Darkness . As the fated and influential hour rolled on , the terrors of the hateful Presence grew more confounding to the mortal senses of the victim , and the knot of ...
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... light , glimmering through the window of a large waste barn , which had survived the farm - house to which it once ... Light down , light down ; for ye maunna gang farther the night , and a friend's house sae near . ' The farmer was ...
... light , glimmering through the window of a large waste barn , which had survived the farm - house to which it once ... Light down , light down ; for ye maunna gang farther the night , and a friend's house sae near . ' The farmer was ...
Page 12
... light steps by his bedside , and understood they were rummaging his clothes . When they found the money which the providence of Jean Gordon had made him retain , they held a consultation if they should take it or no ; but the smallness ...
... light steps by his bedside , and understood they were rummaging his clothes . When they found the money which the providence of Jean Gordon had made him retain , they held a consultation if they should take it or no ; but the smallness ...
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... light grew faint and more faint , and the morass ap- peared blacker and blacker , our traveller questioned more closely each chance passenger on his distance from the village of Kipple- tringan , where he proposed to quarter for the ...
... light grew faint and more faint , and the morass ap- peared blacker and blacker , our traveller questioned more closely each chance passenger on his distance from the village of Kipple- tringan , where he proposed to quarter for the ...
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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