Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 3G. Bell and Sons, 1884 |
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... managed for me like a mother , and kept them for me , obliged me to mend them , and turn them to the best advantage ; for she was a rare housewife . At last one of the ladies took such a fancy to me , that she would have me home to her ...
... managed for me like a mother , and kept them for me , obliged me to mend them , and turn them to the best advantage ; for she was a rare housewife . At last one of the ladies took such a fancy to me , that she would have me home to her ...
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... managed themselves with me in a quite different manner . The eldest , a gay gentleman , that knew the town as well as the country ; and though he had levity enough to do an ill- natured thing , yet had too much judgment of things to pay ...
... managed themselves with me in a quite different manner . The eldest , a gay gentleman , that knew the town as well as the country ; and though he had levity enough to do an ill- natured thing , yet had too much judgment of things to pay ...
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... managed with so much address , that not one creature in the family had so much as a suspicion of it ; that if he smiled when I told him my thoughts , it was at the assurance he lately received , that our understanding one another was ...
... managed with so much address , that not one creature in the family had so much as a suspicion of it ; that if he smiled when I told him my thoughts , it was at the assurance he lately received , that our understanding one another was ...
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... managed me , his next business was to manage his mother ; and he never left till he had brought her to acquiesce , and be passive even without acquainting the father , other than by post letters : so that she consented to MARRY THE ...
... managed me , his next business was to manage his mother ; and he never left till he had brought her to acquiesce , and be passive even without acquainting the father , other than by post letters : so that she consented to MARRY THE ...
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... managed another thing herself , for she got a young gentleman who was a relation , to come and visit her two or three times a week in a very fine chariot and good liveries , and her two agents , and I also , presently spread a report ...
... managed another thing herself , for she got a young gentleman who was a relation , to come and visit her two or three times a week in a very fine chariot and good liveries , and her two agents , and I also , presently spread a report ...
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Page 562 - And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. 32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them. 33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.