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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... sure . This is too near the first hours of my life , for me to relate anything of myself , but by hearsay ; ' tis enough to mention , that as I was born in such an unhappy place , I had no parish to have recourse to for my nourishment ...
... sure . This is too near the first hours of my life , for me to relate anything of myself , but by hearsay ; ' tis enough to mention , that as I was born in such an unhappy place , I had no parish to have recourse to for my nourishment ...
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... sure it would . Well , madam , forsooth , says she , gibing at me ; you would be a gentlewoman , and how will you come to be a gentlewoman ? what will you do it by your fingers ' ends ? WOULD BE A GENTLEWOMAN Yes , says I again , 4 MOLL ...
... sure it would . Well , madam , forsooth , says she , gibing at me ; you would be a gentlewoman , and how will you come to be a gentlewoman ? what will you do it by your fingers ' ends ? WOULD BE A GENTLEWOMAN Yes , says I again , 4 MOLL ...
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... sure , and still I cried heartily . I had no policy in all this , you may easily see it was all nature , but it was joined with so much innocence , and so much passion , that in short it set the good motherly creature a weeping too ...
... sure , and still I cried heartily . I had no policy in all this , you may easily see it was all nature , but it was joined with so much innocence , and so much passion , that in short it set the good motherly creature a weeping too ...
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... sure they call her madam , and she does not go to service nor do house - work ; and therefore I insisted that she was a gentlewoman , and I would be such a gentlewoman as that . The ladies were told all this again , and they made them ...
... sure they call her madam , and she does not go to service nor do house - work ; and therefore I insisted that she was a gentlewoman , and I would be such a gentlewoman as that . The ladies were told all this again , and they made them ...
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... sure : the fright of my condition had made such an impression upon me , that I did not want now to be a gentlewoman , but was very willing to be a servant , and that any kind of servant they thought fit to have me be . But my new ...
... sure : the fright of my condition had made such an impression upon me , that I did not want now to be a gentlewoman , but was very willing to be a servant , and that any kind of servant they thought fit to have me be . But my new ...
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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.