Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 532 pages |
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Page 110
... Colonel Mannering , sir , from the East Indies . " " What , him we read of in the newspapers ? " " Ay , ay , just the same . It was he relieved Cuddieburn , and defended Chingalore , and defeated the great Mahratta chief , Ram Jolli ...
... Colonel Mannering , sir , from the East Indies . " " What , him we read of in the newspapers ? " " Ay , ay , just the same . It was he relieved Cuddieburn , and defended Chingalore , and defeated the great Mahratta chief , Ram Jolli ...
Page 111
... Colonel was walking pensively up and down the parlour , when the officious landlady re - entered to take his commands . Having given them in the manner he thought would be most acceptable " for the good of the house , " he begged to ...
... Colonel was walking pensively up and down the parlour , when the officious landlady re - entered to take his commands . Having given them in the manner he thought would be most acceptable " for the good of the house , " he begged to ...
Page 118
... Colonel Mannering at once disposed this gentleman , who was a man of intelligence and probity , to be open and confi- dential . He explained the advantages and disadvantages of the property . " It was settled , " he said , " the greater ...
... Colonel Mannering at once disposed this gentleman , who was a man of intelligence and probity , to be open and confi- dential . He explained the advantages and disadvantages of the property . " It was settled , " he said , " the greater ...
Page 119
... Colonel Mannering attended the parish church with great decorum . None of the Ellangowan family were present ; and it was understood that the old Laird was rather worse than better . Jock Jabos , once more dispatched for him , returned ...
... Colonel Mannering attended the parish church with great decorum . None of the Ellangowan family were present ; and it was understood that the old Laird was rather worse than better . Jock Jabos , once more dispatched for him , returned ...
Page 121
... Colonel Mannering could find any one disposed to answer his reiterated questions concerning Ellan- gowan himself . At length , an old maid - servant , who held her apron to her eyes as she spoke , told him , " the Laird was some- thing ...
... Colonel Mannering could find any one disposed to answer his reiterated questions concerning Ellan- gowan himself . At length , an old maid - servant , who held her apron to her eyes as she spoke , told him , " the Laird was some- thing ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door e'en Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazlewood-house head heard honour hope 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 Mervyn's mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle naething never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thing thought turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker