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... from your looks , " said the father , " that you have bad tidings to tell me of my young stranger ; perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood , or perhaps INTRODUCTION ...
... from your looks , " said the father , " that you have bad tidings to tell me of my young stranger ; perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood , or perhaps INTRODUCTION ...
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... young Nazarene could not have been bred up with more rigour . All that was evil was withheld from his observation - he only heard what was pure in precept - he only witnessed what was worthy in practice . But when the boy began to be ...
... young Nazarene could not have been bred up with more rigour . All that was evil was withheld from his observation - he only heard what was pure in precept - he only witnessed what was worthy in practice . But when the boy began to be ...
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... young man were so excellent , that he combated , by rea- son and religion , the fits of gloom which at times overcast his mind , and it was not till he attained the commencement of his twenty - first year , that they assumed a character ...
... young man were so excellent , that he combated , by rea- son and religion , the fits of gloom which at times overcast his mind , and it was not till he attained the commencement of his twenty - first year , that they assumed a character ...
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... young man was left alone ; and hardly did he find himself so , when , like a swarm of demons , the recollection of all his sins of omission and commission , rendered even more terrible by the scrupulousness with which he had been educa ...
... young man was left alone ; and hardly did he find himself so , when , like a swarm of demons , the recollection of all his sins of omission and commission , rendered even more terrible by the scrupulousness with which he had been educa ...
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... Young . She was a remarkable personage of a very commanding presence , and high stature , being nearly six feet high . She had a large aquiline nose penetrating eyes , even in her old age - bushy hair that hung around her shoulders from ...
... Young . She was a remarkable personage of a very commanding presence , and high stature , being nearly six feet high . She had a large aquiline nose penetrating eyes , even in her old age - bushy hair that hung around her shoulders from ...
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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