Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 |
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Page 21
... in the garden . When he was gone , Amy changed her countenance , indeed ,
and looked as merry as ever she did in her life . Dear madam , says she , what
does this gentleman mean ? Nay , Amy , said I , he means to do us good , you
see ...
... in the garden . When he was gone , Amy changed her countenance , indeed ,
and looked as merry as ever she did in her life . Dear madam , says she , what
does this gentleman mean ? Nay , Amy , said I , he means to do us good , you
see ...
Page 191
But Amy could by no means learn how to write to him there , till , by great accident
, an old Dutch skipper , who had formerly ... But in the mean time she wrote to me
from Paris , that he was not to be found by any means ; that he had been gone ...
But Amy could by no means learn how to write to him there , till , by great accident
, an old Dutch skipper , who had formerly ... But in the mean time she wrote to me
from Paris , that he was not to be found by any means ; that he had been gone ...
Page 211
211 I started at his expression : What , says I , do you think then that I am crazed ?
You should then propose a madhouse for my cure . No , no , says he , I do not
mean anything like that ; I hope the head may be distempered and not the brain .
211 I started at his expression : What , says I , do you think then that I am crazed ?
You should then propose a madhouse for my cure . No , no , says he , I do not
mean anything like that ; I hope the head may be distempered and not the brain .
Page 215
Pray what d'ye mean by that ? and began to look a little grave . I'll tell you , says
he , very plainly , what I mean ; and still he held me fast in his arms . I intend from
this time never to trouble myself with any more business , so I shall never get one
...
Pray what d'ye mean by that ? and began to look a little grave . I'll tell you , says
he , very plainly , what I mean ; and still he held me fast in his arms . I intend from
this time never to trouble myself with any more business , so I shall never get one
...
Page 275
In the mean time Amy was next door to stark - mad about her ; she durst not see
her at my lodgings for her life ; and she went days without number to Spitalfields ,
where she used to come , and to her former lodging , and could never meet with ...
In the mean time Amy was next door to stark - mad about her ; she durst not see
her at my lodgings for her life ; and she went days without number to Spitalfields ,
where she used to come , and to her former lodging , and could never meet with ...
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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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