Guy Mannering Or, the Astrologer |
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... night in ascertaining the position of the heavenly bodies , and calculating their probable influence ; until at length the result of his observations induced him to send for the father , and conjure him , in the most solemn manner , to ...
... night in ascertaining the position of the heavenly bodies , and calculating their probable influence ; until at length the result of his observations induced him to send for the father , and conjure him , in the most solemn manner , to ...
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... night , and a friend's house sae The farmer was obliged to dismount , and accept the gipsy's offer of supper and a bed . There was plenty of meat in the barn , however it might be come by , and preparations were going on for a plentiful ...
... night , and a friend's house sae The farmer was obliged to dismount , and accept the gipsy's offer of supper and a bed . There was plenty of meat in the barn , however it might be come by , and preparations were going on for a plentiful ...
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... night . His queries were usually answered by a counter - challenge respecting the place from whence he came . While sufficient day - light remained to show the dress and appearance of a gentleman , these cross in- terrogatories were ...
... night . His queries were usually answered by a counter - challenge respecting the place from whence he came . While sufficient day - light remained to show the dress and appearance of a gentleman , these cross in- terrogatories were ...
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... night , a fatigued horse , and a traveller ignorant of his road . Mannering resolved , therefore , definitively to halt for the night at the first inhabited place , however poor , he might chance to reach , unless he could procure a ...
... night , a fatigued horse , and a traveller ignorant of his road . Mannering resolved , therefore , definitively to halt for the night at the first inhabited place , however poor , he might chance to reach , unless he could procure a ...
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... night . " " Troth , I kenna , unless ye like to gae down and speer for quarters at the Place . I'se warrant they ' ll tak ye in , whether ye be gentle or semple . " “ Simple enough , to be wandering here at such a time of night ...
... night . " " Troth , I kenna , unless ye like to gae down and speer for quarters at the Place . I'se warrant they ' ll tak ye in , whether ye be gentle or semple . " “ Simple enough , to be wandering here at such a time of night ...
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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