Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2G. Bell and Sons, 1885 |
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... told my father an academic education was very proper for a person of quality , and he thought me very fit for it : so my father entered me of college in Oxford , where I continued three years . A collegiate life did not suit me at all ...
... told my father an academic education was very proper for a person of quality , and he thought me very fit for it : so my father entered me of college in Oxford , where I continued three years . A collegiate life did not suit me at all ...
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... told me , with a great deal of passion , that he loved me above all the rest of his children , and that therefore he intended to do very well for me ; and that my eldest brother being already married and settled , he had designed the ...
... told me , with a great deal of passion , that he loved me above all the rest of his children , and that therefore he intended to do very well for me ; and that my eldest brother being already married and settled , he had designed the ...
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... told him in particular , if I lived to see him again , I would acknowledge it . This accident of our horse was , as we afterwards found , of some use to us . We had left our two servants behind us at Calais to bring our baggage after us ...
... told him in particular , if I lived to see him again , I would acknowledge it . This accident of our horse was , as we afterwards found , of some use to us . We had left our two servants behind us at Calais to bring our baggage after us ...
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... told them that was not the man . Then they seemed to be in more consternation than before , and spread themselves all over the street , crying Larron , Larron , Larron , pretending to search for the fellow ; and so one one way , one ...
... told them that was not the man . Then they seemed to be in more consternation than before , and spread themselves all over the street , crying Larron , Larron , Larron , pretending to search for the fellow ; and so one one way , one ...
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... told me once , as we were passing from Orleans to Lyons , that the English had ruined them ; and therefore , says he , I think the next occasion the king takes to use us ill , as I know it will not be long before he does , we must all ...
... told me once , as we were passing from Orleans to Lyons , that the English had ruined them ; and therefore , says he , I think the next occasion the king takes to use us ill , as I know it will not be long before he does , we must all ...
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