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Page 198
... counsellors , who loved the old road , either because it was such , of because they had got too well used to it to travel any other . Among those praisers of the past time , who with ostentatious obstinacy af- fected the manners of a ...
... counsellors , who loved the old road , either because it was such , of because they had got too well used to it to travel any other . Among those praisers of the past time , who with ostentatious obstinacy af- fected the manners of a ...
Page 200
... counsellor himself , the principal figure therein , struck his two clients with amazement . Mr. Pleydell was a lively , sharp - looking gentleman , with a professional shrewdness in his eye , and , generally speaking , a professional ...
... counsellor himself , the principal figure therein , struck his two clients with amazement . Mr. Pleydell was a lively , sharp - looking gentleman , with a professional shrewdness in his eye , and , generally speaking , a professional ...
Page 201
... Counsellor Pleydell , such as we have described him , was enthroned , as a monarch , in an elbow - chair , placed on the dining- table , his scratch wig on one side , his head crowned with a bottle . slider , his eye leering with an ...
... Counsellor Pleydell , such as we have described him , was enthroned , as a monarch , in an elbow - chair , placed on the dining- table , his scratch wig on one side , his head crowned with a bottle . slider , his eye leering with an ...
Page 203
... counsellor , " it will cost my ears a dinning . - Well , say in two words what you've got to say - you see the gentleman waits . " " Ou , sir , if the gentleman likes he may play his ain spring first ; it's a ' ane to Dandie . " 66 Now ...
... counsellor , " it will cost my ears a dinning . - Well , say in two words what you've got to say - you see the gentleman waits . " " Ou , sir , if the gentleman likes he may play his ain spring first ; it's a ' ane to Dandie . " 66 Now ...
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... counsellor rather surprised . " Ou , we have nae connexion at a ' wi ' the Bertrams , " said Dan- die , " they were grand folk by the like o ' us - But Jean Liltup , that was auld Singleside's housekeeper , and the mother of these twa ...
... counsellor rather surprised . " Ou , we have nae connexion at a ' wi ' the Bertrams , " said Dan- die , " they were grand folk by the like o ' us - But Jean Liltup , that was auld Singleside's housekeeper , and the mother of these twa ...
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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