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... well furnished , you shall let it out to lodgings for the summer gentry , says he ,
by which you will easily get a good comfortable subsistence , especially seeing
you shall pay me no rent for two years , nor after neither , unless you can afford it .
... well furnished , you shall let it out to lodgings for the summer gentry , says he ,
by which you will easily get a good comfortable subsistence , especially seeing
you shall pay me no rent for two years , nor after neither , unless you can afford it .
Page 65
... to his gentleman , he provided a very convenient house , about four miles
south of Paris , at the village of where I had very agreeable lodgings , good
gardens , and all things very easy to my content ; but one thing did not please me
at all , viz ...
... to his gentleman , he provided a very convenient house , about four miles
south of Paris , at the village of where I had very agreeable lodgings , good
gardens , and all things very easy to my content ; but one thing did not please me
at all , viz ...
Page 72
The prince was here incognito , only because of his being with me , and ,
therefore , when he heard that the king was in the gardens , he kept close within
the lodgings ; but the gentleman in whose lodgings we were , with his lady and
several ...
The prince was here incognito , only because of his being with me , and ,
therefore , when he heard that the king was in the gardens , he kept close within
the lodgings ; but the gentleman in whose lodgings we were , with his lady and
several ...
Page 115
The whore skulks about in lodgings , is visited in the dark , disowned upon all
occasions before God and man ; is maintained , indeed , for a time , but is
certainly condemned to be abandoned at last , and left to the miseries of fate and
her own ...
The whore skulks about in lodgings , is visited in the dark , disowned upon all
occasions before God and man ; is maintained , indeed , for a time , but is
certainly condemned to be abandoned at last , and left to the miseries of fate and
her own ...
Page 118
In short , he took up his lodgings in the same house where I lodged , and the
room he lay in opened , as he was wishing it would , just opposite to my lodging -
room , so we could almost call out of bed to one another ; and I was not at all shy
of ...
In short , he took up his lodgings in the same house where I lodged , and the
room he lay in opened , as he was wishing it would , just opposite to my lodging -
room , so we could almost call out of bed to one another ; and I was not at all shy
of ...
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| Title | Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe |
| Author | Daniel Defoe |
| Publisher | G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Jul 2007 |
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