Guy Mannering, Or, The AstrologerBernhard Tauchnitz, 1846 - 467 pages |
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Page 52
... Glossin , writer in , agent for the Laird of Ellangowan . This honest gentleman had either been refused some favour by the old member , or , what is as probable , he had got all that he had the most distant pretension to ask , and could ...
... Glossin , writer in , agent for the Laird of Ellangowan . This honest gentleman had either been refused some favour by the old member , or , what is as probable , he had got all that he had the most distant pretension to ask , and could ...
Page 53
... Glossin was made clerk of the peace , and Godfrey Bertram had his name inserted in a new commission of justices , issued immediately upon the sitting of the parliament . This had been the summit of Mr. Bertram's ambition ; not that he ...
... Glossin was made clerk of the peace , and Godfrey Bertram had his name inserted in a new commission of justices , issued immediately upon the sitting of the parliament . This had been the summit of Mr. Bertram's ambition ; not that he ...
Page 90
... Glossin wants to get rid of the auld Laird , and drive on the sale , for fear the heir- male should cast up upon them ; for I have heard say , if there was an heir - male , they couldna sell the estate for auld Ellango- wan's debt ...
... Glossin wants to get rid of the auld Laird , and drive on the sale , for fear the heir- male should cast up upon them ; for I have heard say , if there was an heir - male , they couldna sell the estate for auld Ellango- wan's debt ...
Page 97
... Glossin , that's risen on the ruin of the best friend he ever had - And now I think on't , I'll slip on my hood and pattens , and gang to Mr. Mac- Morlan mysel ! - he's at hame e'en now - it's hardly a step . " " Do so , my good ...
... Glossin , that's risen on the ruin of the best friend he ever had - And now I think on't , I'll slip on my hood and pattens , and gang to Mr. Mac- Morlan mysel ! - he's at hame e'en now - it's hardly a step . " " Do so , my good ...
Page 107
... Glossin's voice ! if my father sees him , it will kill him outright ! " ----- Sampson wheeled perpendicularly round , and moved with long strides to confront the attorney , as he issued from beneath the portal arch of the ruin . " Avoid ...
... Glossin's voice ! if my father sees him , it will kill him outright ! " ----- Sampson wheeled perpendicularly round , and moved with long strides to confront the attorney , as he issued from beneath the portal arch of the ruin . " Avoid ...
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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 suppose tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker