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... never returned . Now , I cannot grant that the idea of Meg Merrilies was , in the first concoction of the character , derived from Flora Marshal , seeing I have already said she was identified with Jean Gordon , and as I have not the ...
... never returned . Now , I cannot grant that the idea of Meg Merrilies was , in the first concoction of the character , derived from Flora Marshal , seeing I have already said she was identified with Jean Gordon , and as I have not the ...
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... never do , good dame ! my horse is almost quite knocked up ; can you not give me a night's lodgings ? ' ' Troth can I no ; I am a lone woman , for James he's awa to Drumshourloch Fair with the year - aulds , and I daurna for my life ...
... never do , good dame ! my horse is almost quite knocked up ; can you not give me a night's lodgings ? ' ' Troth can I no ; I am a lone woman , for James he's awa to Drumshourloch Fair with the year - aulds , and I daurna for my life ...
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... never before heard that he had such cases in court . Mean- while his neighbours predicted his final ruin . Those of ... never prevented their taking the advantage of him on all possi- ble occasions , turning their cattle into his parks ...
... never before heard that he had such cases in court . Mean- while his neighbours predicted his final ruin . Those of ... never prevented their taking the advantage of him on all possi- ble occasions , turning their cattle into his parks ...
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... never equalled those of a skilful plough- man . He wrote , however , a good hand , and added something to his pittance by copying accounts and writing letters for Ellangowan . By degrees , the Laird , who was much estranged from general ...
... never equalled those of a skilful plough- man . He wrote , however , a good hand , and added something to his pittance by copying accounts and writing letters for Ellangowan . By degrees , the Laird , who was much estranged from general ...
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... Commons . Now I should have voted there for the Laird of Balruddery ; but ye see my father was a Jacobite , and out with Kenmore , so he never took the oaths ; and I ken not weel how it was , but all that I CHAPTER III ...
... Commons . Now I should have voted there for the Laird of Balruddery ; but ye see my father was a Jacobite , and out with Kenmore , so he never took the oaths ; and I ken not weel how it was , but all that I CHAPTER III ...
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