Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer |
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... doors the Rev. Aaron Macbriar , his mother's chaplain , ( it is said they quarrelled about the good graces of a milk - maid , ) drank himself daily drunk with brimming healths to the king , council , and bishops ; held orgies with the ...
... doors the Rev. Aaron Macbriar , his mother's chaplain , ( it is said they quarrelled about the good graces of a milk - maid , ) drank himself daily drunk with brimming healths to the king , council , and bishops ; held orgies with the ...
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... door in the middle , leading to a parlour and withdrawing room , full of all manner of cross 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 ...
... door in the middle , leading to a parlour and withdrawing room , full of all manner of cross 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 ...
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... door opened , and Meg Merrilies entered . But at this Her appearance made Mannering start . She was full six feet high , wore a man's great - coat over the rest of her dress , had in her hand a goodly sloethorn cudgel , and in all ...
... door opened , and Meg Merrilies entered . But at this Her appearance made Mannering start . She was full six feet high , wore a man's great - coat over the rest of her dress , had in her hand a goodly sloethorn cudgel , and in all ...
Page 32
... door , and tell us what news ye have heard at the fair o ' Drumshour- loch . " " Troth Laird , and there was muckle want o ' you , and the like o ' you ; for there was a wheen bonnie lasses there , forbye , mysell , and deil ane to gie ...
... door , and tell us what news ye have heard at the fair o ' Drumshour- loch . " " Troth Laird , and there was muckle want o ' you , and the like o ' you ; for there was a wheen bonnie lasses there , forbye , mysell , and deil ane to gie ...
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... door half sashed with glass , which led to an old - fashioned terrace - walk , behind the modern house , communicating with the platform on which the ruins of the ancient castle were situated . The wind had arisen , and swept before it ...
... door half sashed with glass , which led to an old - fashioned terrace - walk , behind the modern house , communicating with the platform on which the ruins of the ancient castle were situated . The wind had arisen , and swept before it ...
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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