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Page viii
... effect the severe and almost ascetic plan of education which the sage had enjoined . A tutor of the strictest principles was employed to superintend the youth's education ; he was surrounded by domestics of the most established ...
... effect the severe and almost ascetic plan of education which the sage had enjoined . A tutor of the strictest principles was employed to superintend the youth's education ; he was surrounded by domestics of the most established ...
Page 14
... effect of her strong and weather - beaten features , which they partly shadowed , while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected insanity . ' Aweel , Ellangowan , ' she said , ' wad it no hae been a bonnie ...
... effect of her strong and weather - beaten features , which they partly shadowed , while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected insanity . ' Aweel , Ellangowan , ' she said , ' wad it no hae been a bonnie ...
Page 16
... effect which the discovery of such impositions produced upon this saturnine personage was , to extort an ejaculation of ' Prodigious ! ' or ' Very facetious ! pronounced syllabically , but without moving a muscle of his own countenance ...
... effect which the discovery of such impositions produced upon this saturnine personage was , to extort an ejaculation of ' Prodigious ! ' or ' Very facetious ! pronounced syllabically , but without moving a muscle of his own countenance ...
Page 19
... effects on the destiny of the new - born infant , as if the courses or emanations of the stars superseded , or at least were co - ordinate with , Divine Providence . Well , rest be with him he instilled into me enough of knowledge for ...
... effects on the destiny of the new - born infant , as if the courses or emanations of the stars superseded , or at least were co - ordinate with , Divine Providence . Well , rest be with him he instilled into me enough of knowledge for ...
Page 24
... effect upon Mannering . Beneath his eye lay the modern house an awkward mansion , indeed , in point of architecture , but well situated , and with a warm , pleasant exposure . How happily , ' thought our hero , ' would life glide on in ...
... effect upon Mannering . Beneath his eye lay the modern house an awkward mansion , indeed , in point of architecture , but well situated , and with a warm , pleasant exposure . How happily , ' thought our hero , ' would life glide on in ...
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Allonby answered appearance astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlie's Hope circumstances Colonel Mannering Counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh devil deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door 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 naething never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thought turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker