Guy Mannering, Or, The AstrologerBernhard Tauchnitz, 1846 - 467 pages |
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Page 7
... voice faltered with emotion as he said , " Dear child , at whose coming into the world I foresaw this fatal trial , may God give thee grace to support it with firmness ! " The young man was left alone ; and hardly did he find him- self ...
... voice faltered with emotion as he said , " Dear child , at whose coming into the world I foresaw this fatal trial , may God give thee grace to support it with firmness ! " The young man was left alone ; and hardly did he find him- self ...
Page 13
... voice left , continued to exclaim at such intervals , Charlie yet ! Charlie yet ! ' When a child , and among the scenes which she frequented , I have often heard these stories , and cried piteously for poor Jean Gordon . " Before ...
... voice left , continued to exclaim at such intervals , Charlie yet ! Charlie yet ! ' When a child , and among the scenes which she frequented , I have often heard these stories , and cried piteously for poor Jean Gordon . " Before ...
Page 18
... voice of the querist alone was distinguishable , the response usually was , " Where are ye coming frae at sic a time o ' night as the like o ' this ? " or , " Ye ' ll no be o ' this country , freend ? " The answers , when obtained ...
... voice of the querist alone was distinguishable , the response usually was , " Where are ye coming frae at sic a time o ' night as the like o ' this ? " or , " Ye ' ll no be o ' this country , freend ? " The answers , when obtained ...
Page 20
... voice from the interior , " are ye lying routing there , and a young gentleman seeking the way to the Place ? Get up , ye fause loon , and show him the way down the muckle loaning . * The Hope , often pronounced Whaap , is the sheltered ...
... voice from the interior , " are ye lying routing there , and a young gentleman seeking the way to the Place ? Get up , ye fause loon , and show him the way down the muckle loaning . * The Hope , often pronounced Whaap , is the sheltered ...
Page 27
... complicated machinery within the inner man the harsh and dissonant voice , and the screech - owl notes to which it was exalted when he was exhorted to pronounce more Po distinctly - all added fresh subject for mirth to the 27.
... complicated machinery within the inner man the harsh and dissonant voice , and the screech - owl notes to which it was exalted when he was exhorted to pronounce more Po distinctly - all added fresh subject for mirth to the 27.
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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