Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerA. and C. Black, 1862 - 313 pages |
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... Ellangowan Auld Place ; there's a hantle bogles about it -- but ye needna be feared - I never saw ony mysell , and we're just at the door o ' the New Place . " Accordingly , leaving the ruins on the right , a few steps brought the ...
... Ellangowan Auld Place ; there's a hantle bogles about it -- but ye needna be feared - I never saw ony mysell , and we're just at the door o ' the New Place . " Accordingly , leaving the ruins on the right , a few steps brought the ...
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... Ellangowan , succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent - roll , like many lairds of that period . His list of forefathers ascended so high , that they were lost in the barbarous ages of Galwegian independence ; so that his ...
... Ellangowan , succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent - roll , like many lairds of that period . His list of forefathers ascended so high , that they were lost in the barbarous ages of Galwegian independence ; so that his ...
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... Ellangowan to interfere with politics , he had yet the prudence , ere he went out with Lord Ken- more in 1715 , to convey his estate to trustees , in order to parry pains and penalties , in case the Earl of Mar could not put down the ...
... Ellangowan to interfere with politics , he had yet the prudence , ere he went out with Lord Ken- more in 1715 , to convey his estate to trustees , in order to parry pains and penalties , in case the Earl of Mar could not put down the ...
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... Ellangowan's gentry , and he found it necessary gradually to estrange himself from their society , and sink into what was then a very am- biguous character , a gentleman farmer . In the midst of his schemes death claimed his tribute ...
... Ellangowan's gentry , and he found it necessary gradually to estrange himself from their society , and sink into what was then a very am- biguous character , a gentleman farmer . In the midst of his schemes death claimed his tribute ...
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... Ellangowan . By degrees , the Laird , who was much estranged from general society , became partial to that of Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the ...
... Ellangowan . By degrees , the Laird , who was much estranged from general society , became partial to that of Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the ...
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