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Page 99
... Brown , joined our regiment as a volunteer , and finding the military duty more to his fancy than commerce , in which he had been engaged , remained with us as a cadet . Let me do my unhappy victim justice he behaved with such gallantry ...
... Brown , joined our regiment as a volunteer , and finding the military duty more to his fancy than commerce , in which he had been engaged , remained with us as a cadet . Let me do my unhappy victim justice he behaved with such gallantry ...
Page 100
... Brown and me there existed a sort of internal dislike . He made an effort or two to overcome my pre- judice ; but , prepossessed as I was , I placed them to a wrong motive . Feeling himself repulsed , and with scorn , he desisted ; and ...
... Brown and me there existed a sort of internal dislike . He made an effort or two to overcome my pre- judice ; but , prepossessed as I was , I placed them to a wrong motive . Feeling himself repulsed , and with scorn , he desisted ; and ...
Page 101
... Brown's safety , had he escaped . I almost wish he had , though at my own expense ; but he fell by the first fire . We strove to assist him ; but some of these Looties , a species of native banditti who were always on the watch for prey ...
... Brown's safety , had he escaped . I almost wish he had , though at my own expense ; but he fell by the first fire . We strove to assist him ; but some of these Looties , a species of native banditti who were always on the watch for prey ...
Page 105
... brown , and his gaunt cheeks more lank , than when Man- nering last saw him . On one side of the old man was a sylph - like form a young woman of about seventeen , whom the Colonel accounted to be his daughter . She was looking , from ...
... brown , and his gaunt cheeks more lank , than when Man- nering last saw him . On one side of the old man was a sylph - like form a young woman of about seventeen , whom the Colonel accounted to be his daughter . She was looking , from ...
Page 127
... Brown . I will not say his memory . I am convinced he lives , and is faithful . His addresses to me were countenanced by my deceased parent ; imprudently countenanced perhaps , considering the prejudices of my father in favour of birth ...
... Brown . I will not say his memory . I am convinced he lives , and is faithful . His addresses to me were countenanced by my deceased parent ; imprudently countenanced perhaps , considering the prejudices of my father in favour of birth ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlies-hope 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 horse Julia justice justice of peace 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 postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker