Guy Mannering, Or The Astrologer, Part 1 |
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... Merrilies was founded , was well known about the middle of the last century , by the name of Jean Gordon , an inhabitant of the village of Kirk Yetholm , in the Cheviot hills , adjoining to the English Border . The author gave the ...
... Merrilies was founded , was well known about the middle of the last century , by the name of Jean Gordon , an inhabitant of the village of Kirk Yetholm , in the Cheviot hills , adjoining to the English Border . The author gave the ...
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... Merrilies , and possessed the savage virtue of fidelity in the same perfection . Having been often hospitably received at the farm - house of Lochside , near Yetholm , she had carefully abstained from com- mitting any depredations on ...
... Merrilies , and possessed the savage virtue of fidelity in the same perfection . Having been often hospitably received at the farm - house of Lochside , near Yetholm , she had carefully abstained from com- mitting any depredations on ...
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... Merrilies , I imagine Madge must have sat to the unknown au- thor as the representative of her person . " — ( Blackwood's Magazine , vol . i . p . 56. ) How far Blackwood's ingenious correspondent was right , how far mistaken in his ...
... Merrilies , I imagine Madge must have sat to the unknown au- thor as the representative of her person . " — ( Blackwood's Magazine , vol . i . p . 56. ) How far Blackwood's ingenious correspondent was right , how far mistaken in his ...
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... Merrilies , the gipsy , as sure as I am a sinner , " said Mr. Bertram . The Dominie groaned deeply , uncrossed his legs , drew in the huge splay foot which his former posture had extended , placed it perpendicularly , and stretched the ...
... Merrilies , the gipsy , as sure as I am a sinner , " said Mr. Bertram . The Dominie groaned deeply , uncrossed his legs , drew in the huge splay foot which his former posture had extended , placed it perpendicularly , and stretched the ...
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... Merrilies descended to the kitchen to secure her share of the groaning malt , * and the " ken - no , " and Mannering , after looking at his watch , and noting , with great exactness , the hour and minute of the birth , requested , with ...
... Merrilies descended to the kitchen to secure her share of the groaning malt , * and the " ken - no , " and Mannering , after looking at his watch , and noting , with great exactness , the hour and minute of the birth , requested , with ...
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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 e'en Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazlewood-house head heard honour hope horse Jean Gordon Julia justice 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 prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thing thought tram turned voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker