Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 - 358 pages |
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Page 41
... lady miscarried , partly through surprise at the event itself , and partly from terror at the hideous grimaces which attended this unusual cachinnation . The only effect which the discovery of such impositions produced upon this ...
... lady miscarried , partly through surprise at the event itself , and partly from terror at the hideous grimaces which attended this unusual cachinnation . The only effect which the discovery of such impositions produced upon this ...
Page 45
... lady had presented her husband with a fine boy , and was ( of course ) as well as could be expected , broke off this inter- course . Mr Bertram hastened to the lady's apartment , Meg Merrilies descended to the kitchen to secure her ...
... lady had presented her husband with a fine boy , and was ( of course ) as well as could be expected , broke off this inter- course . Mr Bertram hastened to the lady's apartment , Meg Merrilies descended to the kitchen to secure her ...
Page 55
... lady to whom he was attached , and that a similar conjunc- tion of planetary influence threatened her with death , or imprisonment , in her thir- ty - ninth year . She was at this time eigh- teen ; so that , according to the result of ...
... lady to whom he was attached , and that a similar conjunc- tion of planetary influence threatened her with death , or imprisonment , in her thir- ty - ninth year . She was at this time eigh- teen ; so that , according to the result of ...
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... not remain unnoticed . All this made a great impression upon the mind of Mrs Bertram , for the good lady had no small store of superstition . Her first employment , when she became capable of a GUY MANNERING . 85 CHAPTER VI. ...
... not remain unnoticed . All this made a great impression upon the mind of Mrs Bertram , for the good lady had no small store of superstition . Her first employment , when she became capable of a GUY MANNERING . 85 CHAPTER VI. ...
Page 96
... lady , on ilka Christmas night . as it came round , gae twelve siller pennies to ilka puir body about , in honour of the twelve apostles like . They were fond to ca ' it papistrie ; but I think our great folk might take a lesson frae ...
... lady , on ilka Christmas night . as it came round , gae twelve siller pennies to ilka puir body about , in honour of the twelve apostles like . They were fond to ca ' it papistrie ; but I think our great folk might take a lesson frae ...
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