Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer |
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Page 19
... light to consult the relics of a finger - post which stood there , it would have been of little avail , as , according to the good custom of North Britain , the inscription had been defaced shortly after its erection . Our adventurer ...
... light to consult the relics of a finger - post which stood there , it would have been of little avail , as , according to the good custom of North Britain , the inscription had been defaced shortly after its erection . Our adventurer ...
Page 21
... light , which his half - naked mother held in such a manner as to get a peep at the stranger , without greatly exposing herself to view in return . Jock moved on westward , by the end of the house , leading Man- nering's horse by the ...
... light , which his half - naked mother held in such a manner as to get a peep at the stranger , without greatly exposing herself to view in return . Jock moved on westward , by the end of the house , leading Man- nering's horse by the ...
Page 25
... lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for re - establishing the pros- perity of his family . He took ...
... lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for re - establishing the pros- perity of his family . He took ...
Page 35
... lights moving upon the shore , probably occasioned by the unloading a smuggling lugger from the Isle of Man , which was lying in the bay . On the light from the sashed door of the house being observed , a halloo from the vessel , of ...
... lights moving upon the shore , probably occasioned by the unloading a smuggling lugger from the Isle of Man , which was lying in the bay . On the light from the sashed door of the house being observed , a halloo from the vessel , of ...
Page 36
... light and shade , and that interesting combination of glade and thicket , upon which the eye delights to rest , charmed with what it sees , yet curious to pierce still deeper into the intricacies of the woodland scenery . Above rolled ...
... light and shade , and that interesting combination of glade and thicket , upon which the eye delights to rest , charmed with what it sees , yet curious to pierce still deeper into the intricacies of the woodland scenery . Above rolled ...
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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