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... suppose that a poor modest humble scholar who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no uncommon personage in a country where a certain portion of learning is easily attained by those ...
... suppose that a poor modest humble scholar who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no uncommon personage in a country where a certain portion of learning is easily attained by those ...
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... suppose . You must know , Mr. Man- nering , that these free - traders , whom the law calls smugglers , having no religion , make it all up in superstition ; and they have as many speils and charms and nonsense ' Vanity and waur ! ' said ...
... suppose . You must know , Mr. Man- nering , that these free - traders , whom the law calls smugglers , having no religion , make it all up in superstition ; and they have as many speils and charms and nonsense ' Vanity and waur ! ' said ...
Page 56
... suppose one of the cannons comes ashore and kills him ? or suppose ' Or suppose , my dear , ' said Ellangowan , ' what is much more likely than anything else , that they have gone aboard the sloop or the prize , and are to come round ...
... suppose one of the cannons comes ashore and kills him ? or suppose ' Or suppose , my dear , ' said Ellangowan , ' what is much more likely than anything else , that they have gone aboard the sloop or the prize , and are to come round ...
Page 66
... suppose that , had this woman been accessory to such a dreadful crime , she would have returned , that very evening on which it was committed , to the place of all others where she was most likely to be sought after . Meg Merrilies was ...
... suppose that , had this woman been accessory to such a dreadful crime , she would have returned , that very evening on which it was committed , to the place of all others where she was most likely to be sought after . Meg Merrilies was ...
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... suppose ? ' Nae man can say for that , ' answered the clerk mysteriously . ' Dead ! ' said the Deacon , ' I'se warrant him dead lang syne ; he hasna been heard o ' these twenty years or thereby . ' ' I wot weel it's no twenty years ...
... suppose ? ' Nae man can say for that , ' answered the clerk mysteriously . ' Dead ! ' said the Deacon , ' I'se warrant him dead lang syne ; he hasna been heard o ' these twenty years or thereby . ' ' I wot weel it's no twenty years ...
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