Guy Mannering, Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1857 - Scotland |
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... character , and closely watched and looked after by the anxious father himself . The years of infancy , childhood , and boyhood , passed as the father could have wished . A young Nazarene could not have been bred up with more rigour ...
... character , and closely watched and looked after by the anxious father himself . The years of infancy , childhood , and boyhood , passed as the father could have wished . A young Nazarene could not have been bred up with more rigour ...
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... character , began to overcloud the young man's temper . Tears , which seemed involuntary , broken sleep , moonlight wanderings , and a melancholy for which he could assign no reason , seemed to threaten at once his bodily health , and ...
... character , began to overcloud the young man's temper . Tears , which seemed involuntary , broken sleep , moonlight wanderings , and a melancholy for which he could assign no reason , seemed to threaten at once his bodily health , and ...
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... characters in Guy Mannering . Some circumstances of local situation gave the author , in his youth , an opportunity of seeing a little , and hearing a great deal , about that degraded class who are called gipsies ; who are in most cases ...
... characters in Guy Mannering . Some circumstances of local situation gave the author , in his youth , an opportunity of seeing a little , and hearing a great deal , about that degraded class who are called gipsies ; who are in most cases ...
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... character of Meg Merrilies was founded , was well known about the middle of the last century , by the name of Jean Gordon , an inhabitant of the village of Kirk Yetholm , in the Cheviot hills , adjoining to the English Border . The ...
... character of Meg Merrilies was founded , was well known about the middle of the last century , by the name of Jean Gordon , an inhabitant of the village of Kirk Yetholm , in the Cheviot hills , adjoining to the English Border . The ...
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... character in so solitary a place , and probably at no great distance from her clan , was a grievous surprise to the poor man , whose rent ( to lose which would have been ruin ) was about his person . " Jean set up a loud shout of joyful ...
... character in so solitary a place , and probably at no great distance from her clan , was a grievous surprise to the poor man , whose rent ( to lose which would have been ruin ) was about his person . " Jean set up a loud shout of joyful ...
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Annesley answered appearance Astrologer auld bairn better Bewcastle Brown called cant language castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlies-hope child circumstances Colonel Mannering Dandie daughter dear Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door e'en Ellangowan farmer father fear feelings flageolet fortune frae Frank Kennedy Galloway gentleman gipsy Glossin gude gudewife guest Guy Mannering hame hand Hazlewood head heard heart honour hope horse hospitality Jean Jean Gordon Julia Kippletringan Laird land landlady light look Lord Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies Mervyn mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night observed occasion ower parlour person poor portmanteau postilion precentor reader road round ruins scene Scotland seemed story stranger supposed sure tell there's thought tion turned Warroch weel Willie Marshal woman wood Woodbourne young lady