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Page 159
... Dinmont's good example , and , finally , filled a brown pitcher with her home - brewed . Brown lost no time in doing ample credit to both . For a while , his opposite neighbour and he were too busy to take much notice of each other ...
... Dinmont's good example , and , finally , filled a brown pitcher with her home - brewed . Brown lost no time in doing ample credit to both . For a while , his opposite neighbour and he were too busy to take much notice of each other ...
Page 160
... Dinmont's Pepper and Mustard terriers Lord , man , he sent Tam Hudson * the keeper , and sicken a day as we had wi ' the foumarts and the tods , and sicken a blythe gae - down as we had again e'en ! Faith , that was a night ! " " I ...
... Dinmont's Pepper and Mustard terriers Lord , man , he sent Tam Hudson * the keeper , and sicken a day as we had wi ' the foumarts and the tods , and sicken a blythe gae - down as we had again e'en ! Faith , that was a night ! " " I ...
Page 161
... Dinmont , that's no like you , to gie the country an ill name I wot , there has been nane stirred in the Waste since Sawney Culloch , the travelling merchant , that Rowley Overdees and Jock Penny suffered for at Carlisle twa years since ...
... Dinmont , that's no like you , to gie the country an ill name I wot , there has been nane stirred in the Waste since Sawney Culloch , the travelling merchant , that Rowley Overdees and Jock Penny suffered for at Carlisle twa years since ...
Page 165
... Dinmont had probably made a visit there either of business or pleasure — I wish , thought Brown , the good farmer had staid till I came up ; I should not have been sorry to ask him a few questions about the road , which seems to grow ...
... Dinmont had probably made a visit there either of business or pleasure — I wish , thought Brown , the good farmer had staid till I came up ; I should not have been sorry to ask him a few questions about the road , which seems to grow ...
Page 166
... Dinmont's progress through the morass must be still slower than his own , he resolved to push on , in hopes to over- take him , and have the benefit of his knowledge of the country . At this moment his little terrier sprung forward ...
... Dinmont's progress through the morass must be still slower than his own , he resolved to push on , in hopes to over- take him , and have the benefit of his knowledge of the country . At this moment his little terrier sprung forward ...
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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