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... horse , which , without any demur , chose the left hand path , and seemed to pro- ceed at a somewhat livelier pace than before , affording thereby a hope that he knew he was drawing near to his quarters for the evening . This hope ...
... horse , which , without any demur , chose the left hand path , and seemed to pro- ceed at a somewhat livelier pace than before , affording thereby a hope that he knew he was drawing near to his quarters for the evening . This hope ...
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... 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 open the door to ony o ...
... 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 open the door to ony o ...
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... horse by the bridle , and piloting , with some dexterity , along the little path which bordered the formidable jaw - hole , whose vicinity the stranger was made sensible of by means of more organs than one . His guide then dragged the ...
... horse by the bridle , and piloting , with some dexterity , along the little path which bordered the formidable jaw - hole , whose vicinity the stranger was made sensible of by means of more organs than one . His guide then dragged the ...
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... horse was conducted to a stall , and Mannering found himself in a few minutes seated by a comfortable supper , for which his cold ride gave him a hearty appetite . CHAPTER II . Comes me cranking in , And cuts me from the best of all my ...
... horse was conducted to a stall , and Mannering found himself in a few minutes seated by a comfortable supper , for which his cold ride gave him a hearty appetite . CHAPTER II . Comes me cranking in , And cuts me from the best of all my ...
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... horse - racing , with now and then the al- ternation of a desperate duel . The occupations which he followed encroached , in their opinion , upon the article of Ellangowan's gentry , and he found it necessary gradually to estrange ...
... horse - racing , with now and then the al- ternation of a desperate duel . The occupations which he followed encroached , in their opinion , upon the article of Ellangowan's gentry , and he found it necessary gradually to estrange ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlies-hope Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh 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 poor Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger supposed tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker