Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 532 pages |
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... seen it . The scheme projected may be traced in the three or four first chapters of the work , but farther consideration induced the au- thor to lay his purpose aside . It appeared , on mature consider- ation , that Astrology , though ...
... seen it . The scheme projected may be traced in the three or four first chapters of the work , but farther consideration induced the au- thor to lay his purpose aside . It appeared , on mature consider- ation , that Astrology , though ...
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... seen her for years ; and to meet with such a character in so solitary a place , and probably at no great distance from her clan , was a grievous surprise to the poor man , whose rent ( to lose which would have been ruin ) was about his ...
... seen her for years ; and to meet with such a character in so solitary a place , and probably at no great distance from her clan , was a grievous surprise to the poor man , whose rent ( to lose which would have been ruin ) was about his ...
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... seen ; that is , as Dr Johnson had a shadowy recollection of Queen Anne , as a stately lady in black , adorned with diamonds , so my memory is haunted by a solemn remembrance of a woman of more than female height , dressed in a long red ...
... seen ; that is , as Dr Johnson had a shadowy recollection of Queen Anne , as a stately lady in black , adorned with diamonds , so my memory is haunted by a solemn remembrance of a woman of more than female height , dressed in a long red ...
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... was soon seen . De- prived of Laird Lewis's personal and active superintendence , all his undertakings miscarried , and became either abortive or perilous . Without a single spark of energy to meet 30 GUY MANNERING .
... was soon seen . De- prived of Laird Lewis's personal and active superintendence , all his undertakings miscarried , and became either abortive or perilous . Without a single spark of energy to meet 30 GUY MANNERING .
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... seen on the preceding evening . He soon found an aperture , through which he could observe her without being himself visible ; and could not help feeling , that her figure , her employment , and her situation , conveyed the exact ...
... seen on the preceding evening . He soon found an aperture , through which he could observe her without being himself visible ; and could not help feeling , that her figure , her employment , and her situation , conveyed the exact ...
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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