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... attend his recep- tion , and could not escape his eye . The 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 ...
... attend his recep- tion , and could not escape his eye . The 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 ...
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... attended this unusual cachinnation . The only effect which the discovery of such impositions produced upon this saturnine personage was , to extort an ejaculation of " Prodigious ! " or Very facetious ! " pro- nounced syllabically , but ...
... attended this unusual cachinnation . The only effect which the discovery of such impositions produced upon this saturnine personage was , to extort an ejaculation of " Prodigious ! " or Very facetious ! " pro- nounced syllabically , but ...
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... attend at the canny minute . This was the ken - no , so called because its existence was secret ( that is , presumed to be so ) from all the males of the family , but especially from the husband and master . He was , accordingly ...
... attend at the canny minute . This was the ken - no , so called because its existence was secret ( that is , presumed to be so ) from all the males of the family , but especially from the husband and master . He was , accordingly ...
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... attending ! Passions wild , and Follies vain , Pleasures soon exchanged for pain , Doubt , and Jealousy , and Fear , In the magic dance appear . Now they wax , and now they dwindle , Whirling with the whirling spindle . Twist ye , twine ...
... attending ! Passions wild , and Follies vain , Pleasures soon exchanged for pain , Doubt , and Jealousy , and Fear , In the magic dance appear . Now they wax , and now they dwindle , Whirling with the whirling spindle . Twist ye , twine ...
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... attending his character , yet aiming to bear it down by the affectation of a care- less and hardy familiarity . Mannering briefly rejected his proffered civilities ; and after a surly good morning , Hatteraick retired with the gipsy to ...
... attending his character , yet aiming to bear it down by the affectation of a care- less and hardy familiarity . Mannering briefly rejected his proffered civilities ; and after a surly good morning , Hatteraick retired with the gipsy to ...
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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