Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerA. and C. Black, 1862 - 313 pages |
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Page 60
... prisoner by another troop of these plunderers . She was quickly released by a party of our cavalry ; but I cannot disguise from myself , that the incidents of this fatal morning gave a severe shock to health already delicate . The ...
... prisoner by another troop of these plunderers . She was quickly released by a party of our cavalry ; but I cannot disguise from myself , that the incidents of this fatal morning gave a severe shock to health already delicate . The ...
Page 153
... prisoner - I trow I'll sort him -- but stay , first send up Mac - Guffog . - Now , Mac - Guffog , where did ye find this chield ? " Mac - Guffog , a stout bandy - legged fellow , with a neck like a bull , a face like a firebrand , and a ...
... prisoner - I trow I'll sort him -- but stay , first send up Mac - Guffog . - Now , Mac - Guffog , where did ye find this chield ? " Mac - Guffog , a stout bandy - legged fellow , with a neck like a bull , a face like a firebrand , and a ...
Page 154
... prisoner was in custody . " So he had his griego wrapped close round him , and I judged he was not dry - handed - so I thought it was best to speak proper , and so he believed I was a Manks man , and I kept ay between him and her , for ...
... prisoner was in custody . " So he had his griego wrapped close round him , and I judged he was not dry - handed - so I thought it was best to speak proper , and so he believed I was a Manks man , and I kept ay between him and her , for ...
Page 155
... prisoner , so as to confront him fully , placed the pis- tols before him in readiness , and said in a steady voice , " You are Dirk Hatteraick of Flushing , are you not ? " The prisoner turned his eye instinctively to the door , as if ...
... prisoner , so as to confront him fully , placed the pis- tols before him in readiness , and said in a steady voice , " You are Dirk Hatteraick of Flushing , are you not ? " The prisoner turned his eye instinctively to the door , as if ...
Page 156
... prisoner . " But , Hatteraick , this , that is , if it be true , which I do not be- lieve , this will ruin us both , for he cannot but remember your neat job ; and for me it will be productive of the worst consequences ! It will ruin us ...
... prisoner . " But , Hatteraick , this , that is , if it be true , which I do not be- lieve , this will ruin us both , for he cannot but remember your neat job ; and for me it will be productive of the worst consequences ! It will ruin us ...
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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