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... never- theless , I looked on with as much awe , as the future Doctor , High Church and Tory as he was doomed to be , could look upon the Queen . I conceive this woman to have been Madge Gordon , of whom an impressive account is given in ...
... never- theless , I looked on with as much awe , as the future Doctor , High Church and Tory as he was doomed to be , could look upon the Queen . I conceive this woman to have been Madge Gordon , of whom an impressive account is given in ...
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... never do , good dame ! my horse is almost quite knocked up - can you not give me a night's lodgings ? " - " Troth can I no -I am a lone woman , for James he ' s awa to Drumshourloch fair with the year - aulds , and I daurna for my life ...
... never do , good dame ! my horse is almost quite knocked up - can you not give me a night's lodgings ? " - " Troth can I no -I am a lone woman , for James he ' s awa to Drumshourloch fair with the year - aulds , and I daurna for my life ...
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... never turn awa naebody frae the 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 ...
... never turn awa naebody frae the 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 ...
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... never prevented their taking advantage of him on all possible occasions , turning their cattle into his parks , stealing his wood , shooting his game , and so forth , " for the laird , honest man , he ' ll never find it — he never minds ...
... never prevented their taking advantage of him on all possible occasions , turning their cattle into his parks , stealing his wood , shooting his game , and so forth , " for the laird , honest man , he ' ll never find it — he never minds ...
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... never known that Sampson either exhibited irritability at this ill usage , or made the least attempt to retort upon his tormentors . He slunk from college by the most secret paths he could discover , and plunged himself into his ...
... never known that Sampson either exhibited irritability at this ill usage , or made the least attempt to retort upon his tormentors . He slunk from college by the most secret paths he could discover , and plunged himself into his ...
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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