Guy Mannering, Or The Astrologer, Part 1 |
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Page 5
... There was no hope of remedy , save that he showed steadiness of mind in the study of the Scriptures . " He suffers , " continued the letter of the sage , " from the awakening of those harpies , the passions , which have slept with him ...
... There was no hope of remedy , save that he showed steadiness of mind in the study of the Scriptures . " He suffers , " continued the letter of the sage , " from the awakening of those harpies , the passions , which have slept with him ...
Page 9
... there patches of corn , which even at this season was green , and sometimes a hut , or farm - house , shaded by a willow or two , and ... there's mony English gentle Yetholm tribes : - ' Madge Gordon was descended from GUY MANNERING; ...
... there patches of corn , which even at this season was green , and sometimes a hut , or farm - house , shaded by a willow or two , and ... there's mony English gentle Yetholm tribes : - ' Madge Gordon was descended from GUY MANNERING; ...
Page 10
... there was a time when she was of still more considerable importance , for there were at her wedding fifty saddled asses , and unsaddled asses without number . If Jean Gordon was the prototype of the character of Meg Merrilies , I ...
... there was a time when she was of still more considerable importance , for there were at her wedding fifty saddled asses , and unsaddled asses without number . If Jean Gordon was the prototype of the character of Meg Merrilies , I ...
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... there had been light to consult the relics of a finger - post which stood there , it would have been of little avail , as , according to the good custom of North Britain , the inscription had been defaced shortly after its erection ...
... there had been light to consult the relics of a finger - post which stood there , it would have been of little avail , as , according to the good custom of North Britain , the inscription had been defaced shortly after its erection ...
Page 13
... there nobody that could guide me to this place ? I will pay him handsomely . " The word pay operated like magic . " Jock , ye villain , " exclaim ed a voice from the interior , " are ye lying routing there , and a young gentleman ...
... there nobody that could guide me to this place ? I will pay him handsomely . " The word pay operated like magic . " Jock , ye villain , " exclaim ed a voice from the interior , " are ye lying routing there , and a young gentleman ...
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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