Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
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Page 143
... French lady , by the title of My first business was to get all my bills accepted , which , to cut the story short , was all both accepted and currently paid ; and I then resolved to take me a country lodging somewhere near the town , to ...
... French lady , by the title of My first business was to get all my bills accepted , which , to cut the story short , was all both accepted and currently paid ; and I then resolved to take me a country lodging somewhere near the town , to ...
Page 153
... French to me , that it was the finest dress he had ever seen ; and asked me if he should have the honour to dance with me . I bowed , as giving my consent , but said , as I had been a Mahometan , I could not dance after the manner of ...
... French to me , that it was the finest dress he had ever seen ; and asked me if he should have the honour to dance with me . I bowed , as giving my consent , but said , as I had been a Mahometan , I could not dance after the manner of ...
Page 157
... French , and I replied in the same language . When the doors were opened , they walked into the dancing - room , and danced such a dance as indeed nobody there had ever seen , and to an instrument like a guitar , with a small low ...
... French , and I replied in the same language . When the doors were opened , they walked into the dancing - room , and danced such a dance as indeed nobody there had ever seen , and to an instrument like a guitar , with a small low ...
Page 191
... French merchant said , where he had stayed two years ; but with this addition , viz . , that he came back again to Rouen , and lived in good reputation there another year ; and afterwards , he was gone to England , and that he lived in ...
... French merchant said , where he had stayed two years ; but with this addition , viz . , that he came back again to Rouen , and lived in good reputation there another year ; and afterwards , he was gone to England , and that he lived in ...
Page 193
... French merchant ; that he came from Rouen , and his name was and that he lodged at Mr. on Laurence Pountney's hill . I was surprised , yon may be sure , when she came and told me one evening all the particulars , except that of having ...
... French merchant ; that he came from Rouen , and his name was and that he lodged at Mr. on Laurence Pountney's hill . I was surprised , yon may be sure , when she came and told me one evening all the particulars , except that of having ...
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