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Page 30
... sure we shall not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious There was ance a lass that was in that way she did not live far from hereabouts — ye needna shake your head and groan , Dominie I am sure the kirk dues were a ...
... sure we shall not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious There was ance a lass that was in that way she did not live far from hereabouts — ye needna shake your head and groan , Dominie I am sure the kirk dues were a ...
Page 31
... sure Meg's sangs do nae ill . " " Nor good neither , " answered Dominie Sampson , in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure . They were the first words which Mannering had heard him speak ...
... sure Meg's sangs do nae ill . " " Nor good neither , " answered Dominie Sampson , in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure . They were the first words which Mannering had heard him speak ...
Page 54
... sure he cannot be better pleased than I am . " Accordingly , unwilling to confine his gratitude to mere feelings , or verbal expressions , he gave full current to the new- born zeal of office , and endeavoured to express his sense of ...
... sure he cannot be better pleased than I am . " Accordingly , unwilling to confine his gratitude to mere feelings , or verbal expressions , he gave full current to the new- born zeal of office , and endeavoured to express his sense of ...
Page 57
... sure to be insulted by them , ) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood . In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains , where they feast and riot for many days ; and ...
... sure to be insulted by them , ) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood . In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains , where they feast and riot for many days ; and ...
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... sure , speaking of term - days , I wish , as Frank Kennedy says , that Whitsunday would kill Martinmas and be hanged for the murder for there I have got a letter about that interest of Jenny Cairns's , and deil a tenant's been at the ...
... sure , speaking of term - days , I wish , as Frank Kennedy says , that Whitsunday would kill Martinmas and be hanged for the murder for there I have got a letter about that interest of Jenny Cairns's , and deil a tenant's been at 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