Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerA. and C. Black, 1862 - 313 pages |
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Page iii
... father's , an excellent old Highlander , without a fault , unless a preference to moun- tain - dew over less potent liquors be accounted one . He believed as firmly in the story as in any part of his creed . A grave and elderly person ...
... father's , an excellent old Highlander , without a fault , unless a preference to moun- tain - dew over less potent liquors be accounted one . He believed as firmly in the story as in any part of his creed . A grave and elderly person ...
Page iv
... father and his guest were made acquainted with the birth of a boy . The Astrologer on the morrow met the party who gathered around the breakfast - table wth looks so grave and ominous as to alarm the fears of the father , who had ...
... father and his guest were made acquainted with the birth of a boy . The Astrologer on the morrow met the party who gathered around the breakfast - table wth looks so grave and ominous as to alarm the fears of the father , who had ...
Page v
... 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 . All that was evil was withheld from his observation - he only heard ...
... 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 . All that was evil was withheld from his observation - he only heard ...
Page vi
... father's guest , met him with a shade of displeasure , as well as gravity , on his brow . " Young man , " he said , " wherefore so slow on a journey of such importance ? " - " I thought , " replied the guest , blushing and looking ...
... father's guest , met him with a shade of displeasure , as well as gravity , on his brow . " Young man , " he said , " wherefore so slow on a journey of such importance ? " - " I thought , " replied the guest , blushing and looking ...
Page vii
... father , were set before him in the darkest colours ; and he was treated as one who , having sinned against light , was , therefore , deservedly left a prey to the Prince of Darkness . As the fated and influential hour rolled on , the ...
... father , were set before him in the darkest colours ; and he was treated as one who , having sinned against light , was , therefore , deservedly left a prey to the Prince of Darkness . As the fated and influential hour rolled on , the ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances 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 Hazle 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 never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner racter recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed shew Singleside smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker