Guy Mannering, Or The Astrologer, Part 1 |
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... 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 such an emergency , the Laird said , he feared 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 such an emergency , the Laird said , he feared his ...
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... eyes , and his voice faltered with emotion as he said , " Dear child , at whose coming into the world I foresaw this fatal trial , may God give thee grace to support it with firmness ! " The young man was left alone ; and hardly did he ...
... eyes , and his voice faltered with emotion as he said , " Dear child , at whose coming into the world I foresaw this fatal trial , may God give thee grace to support it with firmness ! " The young man was left alone ; and hardly did he ...
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... eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject tc the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the habitual use of those abstruse calcula tons , by which , in a manner surprising to the artist himself many tricks upon cards ...
... eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject tc the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the habitual use of those abstruse calcula tons , by which , in a manner surprising to the artist himself many tricks upon cards ...
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... eyes , even in her old age - bushy hair that hung around her shoulders from beneath a gipsy bonnet of straw - a ... eye of the reader as irresistibly , as if it respected distresses of a more dignified or refined character . These ...
... eyes , even in her old age - bushy hair that hung around her shoulders from beneath a gipsy bonnet of straw - a ... eye of the reader as irresistibly , as if it respected distresses of a more dignified or refined character . These ...
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... eyes upon it with a disconsolate sen- sation . " Why , my little fellow , " he said , " this is a ruin , not a house ? " " Ah , but the lairds lived there langsyne - that's Ellangowan Auld Place ; there's a hantle bogles about it — but ...
... eyes upon it with a disconsolate sen- sation . " Why , my little fellow , " he said , " this is a ruin , not a house ? " " Ah , but the lairds lived there langsyne - that's Ellangowan Auld Place ; there's a hantle bogles about it — but ...
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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