Guy Mannering, Or, The AstrologerBernhard Tauchnitz, 1846 - 467 pages |
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Page 1
... lady of the house was , he said , confined to her apart- ment , and on the point of making her husband a father for the first time , though they had been ten years married . At such an emergency , the Laird said , he feared his guest ...
... lady of the house was , he said , confined to her apart- ment , and on the point of making her husband a father for the first time , though they had been ten years married . At such an emergency , the Laird said , he feared his guest ...
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... lady while his boy was still in infancy . This calamity , I think , had been predicted by the Astrologer ; and thus his confidence , which , like most people of the period , he had freely given to the science , was riveted and confirmed ...
... lady while his boy was still in infancy . This calamity , I think , had been predicted by the Astrologer ; and thus his confidence , which , like most people of the period , he had freely given to the science , was riveted and confirmed ...
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... lady about eighteen years of age , and so lovely , that the sight of her carried off the feelings of the young stranger from the peculiarity and mystery of his own lot , and riveted his attention to every thing she did or said . She ...
... lady about eighteen years of age , and so lovely , that the sight of her carried off the feelings of the young stranger from the peculiarity and mystery of his own lot , and riveted his attention to every thing she did or said . She ...
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... lady in black , adorned with diamonds , so my memory is haunted by a solemn remembrance of a woman of more than female height , dressed in a long red cloak , who com- menced acquaintance by giving me an apple , but whom , never- theless ...
... lady in black , adorned with diamonds , so my memory is haunted by a solemn remembrance of a woman of more than female height , dressed in a long red cloak , who com- menced acquaintance by giving me an apple , but whom , never- theless ...
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... married à daughter of an eminent fanatic , who had a seat in the council of state , and saved by that union the remainder of the family property . But , as ill chance would have it , he became enamoured of the lady's 23.
... married à daughter of an eminent fanatic , who had a seat in the council of state , and saved by that union the remainder of the family property . But , as ill chance would have it , he became enamoured of the lady's 23.
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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