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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... mean clothes , we were brought up as mannerly as if we had been at the dancing school . I was continued here till I was eight years old , when I was terrified with news that the magistrates ( as I think they called them ) , had ordered ...
... mean clothes , we were brought up as mannerly as if we had been at the dancing school . I was continued here till I was eight years old , when I was terrified with news that the magistrates ( as I think they called them ) , had ordered ...
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... mean time , if nobody comes to see her as they used to do , you may only tell them you have sent her out to my house . This was prudently managed enough , and I went to the lady's house , but I was so pleased there with the young ladies ...
... mean time , if nobody comes to see her as they used to do , you may only tell them you have sent her out to my house . This was prudently managed enough , and I went to the lady's house , but I was so pleased there with the young ladies ...
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... means I had , as I have said , all the advantages of education that I could have had , if I had been as much a ... mean , I had a better voice ; in all which you will , I hope , allow me to say , I do not speak my own conceit , but ...
... means I had , as I have said , all the advantages of education that I could have had , if I had been as much a ... mean , I had a better voice ; in all which you will , I hope , allow me to say , I do not speak my own conceit , but ...
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... mean time , however , I was cunning enough , not to give the least room to any in the family to imagine that I had the least correspondence with him . I scarce ever looked towards him in public , or answered if he spoke to me ; when ...
... mean time , however , I was cunning enough , not to give the least room to any in the family to imagine that I had the least correspondence with him . I scarce ever looked towards him in public , or answered if he spoke to me ; when ...
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... mean time , if I would grant his request , he would maintain me very honourably ; and made me a thousand protestations of his sincerity , and of his affection to me ; and that he would never abandon me , and , as I may say , made a ...
... mean time , if I would grant his request , he would maintain me very honourably ; and made me a thousand protestations of his sincerity , and of his affection to me ; and that he would never abandon me , and , as I may say , made a ...
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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.