Guy Mannering, Or, The AstrologerBernhard Tauchnitz, 1846 - 467 pages |
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... tell me of my young stranger ; perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood , or perhaps he is destined to be unworthy of the affection which we are naturally disposed to devote to our offspring ...
... tell me of my young stranger ; perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood , or perhaps he is destined to be unworthy of the affection which we are naturally disposed to devote to our offspring ...
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... tell us how my leddy was ta'en wi ' her pains . " " Perhaps , " said Mannering , " at such a time a stranger's arrival might be inconvenient ? " " Hout , na , ye needna be blate about that ; their house is muckle eneugh , and clecking ...
... tell us how my leddy was ta'en wi ' her pains . " " Perhaps , " said Mannering , " at such a time a stranger's arrival might be inconvenient ? " " Hout , na , ye needna be blate about that ; their house is muckle eneugh , and clecking ...
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... tell us what news ye have heard at the fair o ' Drumshour- loch . " " Troth Laird , and there was muckle want o ' you , and the like o ' you ; for there was a wheen bonnie lasses there , forbye , mysell , and deil ane to gie them ...
... tell us what news ye have heard at the fair o ' Drumshour- loch . " " Troth Laird , and there was muckle want o ' you , and the like o ' you ; for there was a wheen bonnie lasses there , forbye , mysell , and deil ane to gie them ...
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... horoscope of his first - born ; and , at length , resolved plainly to tell him the judgment which he had formed , at the same time acquainting him with the futility of the rules of art on which he had proceeded . With 39.
... horoscope of his first - born ; and , at length , resolved plainly to tell him the judgment which he had formed , at the same time acquainting him with the futility of the rules of art on which he had proceeded . With 39.
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... tell you a gude story about that . There was ance a laird - that ' s Macfie of Gudgeonford , he had a great number of kain hens , that ' s hens that the tenant pays to the landlord , like a sort of rent in kind- they aye feed mine very ...
... tell you a gude story about that . There was ance a laird - that ' s Macfie of Gudgeonford , he had a great number of kain hens , that ' s hens that the tenant pays to the landlord , like a sort of rent in kind- they aye feed mine very ...
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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