Guy Mannering; Or, The AstrologerMaxwell, 1820 - 241 pages |
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... never without barkers and slashers . ' Any papers ? ' said Glossin . This bundle , ' de- livering a dirty pocket - book . ' Go down stairs , then , Mac - Guffog A 2 GUY MANNERING . that your honour kens of, by the sea-...
... never without barkers and slashers . ' Any papers ? ' said Glossin . This bundle , ' de- livering a dirty pocket - book . ' Go down stairs , then , Mac - Guffog A 2 GUY MANNERING . that your honour kens of, by the sea-...
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... never shunned him alive , and I won't shun him dead - Strafe mich helle ! it shall never be said Dirk Hatteraick feared either dog or devil ! So I am to wait there till I see you ?? Aye , aye , ' answered Glossin ; ' and now I must call ...
... never shunned him alive , and I won't shun him dead - Strafe mich helle ! it shall never be said Dirk Hatteraick feared either dog or devil ! So I am to wait there till I see you ?? Aye , aye , ' answered Glossin ; ' and now I must call ...
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... never watched before , in order to complete my ruin ? -If morning finds him there , he must be committed to prison ; Mac - Morlan , or some other person , will take the matter up - he will be detected - convicted - and will tell all in ...
... never watched before , in order to complete my ruin ? -If morning finds him there , he must be committed to prison ; Mac - Morlan , or some other person , will take the matter up - he will be detected - convicted - and will tell all in ...
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... never led to this spot ; so that finding himself now there for the first time after the terrible catastrophe , the scene at once recurred to his mind with all its accompaniments of horror . He remembered how , like a guilty thing ...
... never led to this spot ; so that finding himself now there for the first time after the terrible catastrophe , the scene at once recurred to his mind with all its accompaniments of horror . He remembered how , like a guilty thing ...
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... never touched a stiver of his rents . ' ' Hush - hush , I tell you it shall be a joint business . ' Why , will you give me half the kitt ? ' ( " What , half the estate ? d'ye mean we should set up house together at Ellangowan , and take ...
... never touched a stiver of his rents . ' ' Hush - hush , I tell you it shall be a joint business . ' Why , will you give me half the kitt ? ' ( " What , half the estate ? d'ye mean we should set up house together at Ellangowan , and take ...
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Popular passages
Page 135 - A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Page 169 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Page 46 - This game was played in several different ways. Most frequently the dice were thrown by the company, and those upon whom the lot fell were obliged to assume and maintain, for a time, a certain fictitious character, or to repeat a certain number of fescenniue verses in a particular order.
Page 54 - Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene; Presents no objects tender or profound...
Page 61 - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.