Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerA. and C. Black, 1862 - 313 pages |
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Page iii
... lady of the house was , he said , confined to her apartment , and on the point of making her husband a father for the first time , though they had been ten years married . At such an emergency , the Laird said , he feared his guest ...
... lady of the house was , he said , confined to her apartment , and on the point of making her husband a father for the first time , though they had been ten years married . At such an emergency , the Laird said , he feared his guest ...
Page v
... lady while his boy was still in infancy . This calamity , I think , had been predicted by the Astrologer ; and thus his confidence , which , like most people of the period , he had freely given to the science , was riveted and confirmed ...
... lady while his boy was still in infancy . This calamity , I think , had been predicted by the Astrologer ; and thus his confidence , which , like most people of the period , he had freely given to the science , was riveted and confirmed ...
Page vi
... lady about eighteen years of age , and so lovely that the sight of her carried off the feelings of the young stranger from the peculiarity and mystery of his own lot , and riveted his attention to everything she did or said . She spoke ...
... lady about eighteen years of age , and so lovely that the sight of her carried off the feelings of the young stranger from the peculiarity and mystery of his own lot , and riveted his attention to everything she did or said . She spoke ...
Page xi
... lady in black , adorned with diamonds , so my memory is haunted by a solemn remembrance of a woman of more than female height , dressed in a long red cloak , who commenced acquaintance by giving me an apple , but whom , nevertheless , I ...
... lady in black , adorned with diamonds , so my memory is haunted by a solemn remembrance of a woman of more than female height , dressed in a long red cloak , who commenced acquaintance by giving me an apple , but whom , nevertheless , I ...
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... he became enamoured of the lady's principles as well as of her charms , and my author gives him this character : " He was a man of eminent parts 3 GUY MANNERING . perhaps the minister's assistant; his appearance was too shabby ...
... he became enamoured of the lady's principles as well as of her charms , and my author gives him this character : " He was a man of eminent parts 3 GUY MANNERING . perhaps the minister's assistant; his appearance was too shabby ...
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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