Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerA. and C. Black, 1862 - 313 pages |
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Page iii
... stranger ; " my wants are few , and easily supplied , and I trust the present circumstances may even afford an opportunity of showing my gratitude for your hospitality . Let me only request that I may be informed of the exact minute of ...
... stranger ; " my wants are few , and easily supplied , and I trust the present circumstances may even afford an opportunity of showing my gratitude for your hospitality . Let me only request that I may be informed of the exact minute of ...
Page iv
... stranger into a private room . " I fear from your looks , " said the father , " that you have bad tidings to tell me of my young stranger : perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood ; or ...
... stranger into a private room . " I fear from your looks , " said the father , " that you have bad tidings to tell me of my young stranger : perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood ; or ...
Page v
... stranger departed , but his words remained impressed upon the mind of the anxious parent . He lost his lady while his boy was still in infancy . This calamity , I think , had been predicted by the Astrologer ; and thus his confidence ...
... stranger departed , but his words remained impressed upon the mind of the anxious parent . He lost his lady while his boy was still in infancy . This calamity , I think , had been predicted by the Astrologer ; and thus his confidence ...
Page vi
... stranger , now a vener- able old man , who had been his 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 ...
... stranger , now a vener- able old man , who had been his 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 ...
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... stranger's arrival might be inconvenient ? " 1 The Hope , often pronounced Whaap , is the sheltered part or hollow of the hill . Hoff , howff , haaf , and haven , all are modifications of the same word . 2 Provincial for eastward and ...
... stranger's arrival might be inconvenient ? " 1 The Hope , often pronounced Whaap , is the sheltered part or hollow of the hill . Hoff , howff , haaf , and haven , all are modifications of the same word . 2 Provincial for eastward and ...
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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