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 49
... fortune agreeable to the condition I had lived in before . I replied , with some tears , which , I confess , were a little forced , that I believed , if Mr. had lived , we should have been out of danger of want , but that it was ...
... fortune agreeable to the condition I had lived in before . I replied , with some tears , which , I confess , were a little forced , that I believed , if Mr. had lived , we should have been out of danger of want , but that it was ...
Page 50
... fortune ; at the same time he complimented me upon my being very handsome , as he pleased to call it , and that I could not fail of admirers . I stood up and humbly thanked his highness , but told him I had no expectations of that kind ...
... fortune ; at the same time he complimented me upon my being very handsome , as he pleased to call it , and that I could not fail of admirers . I stood up and humbly thanked his highness , but told him I had no expectations of that kind ...
Page 68
... fortunes of the family . In those cases , either a man's legitimate children suffer , which is very unnatural , or the unfortunate mother of that illegitimate birth has a dreadful affliction , either of being turned off with her child ...
... fortunes of the family . In those cases , either a man's legitimate children suffer , which is very unnatural , or the unfortunate mother of that illegitimate birth has a dreadful affliction , either of being turned off with her child ...
Page 69
... fortunes in the world . Our affection will be ever his affliction , and his mother's crime be the son's reproach ; the blot can never be wiped out by the most glorious actions ; nay , if it lives to raise a family , said I , the infamy ...
... fortunes in the world . Our affection will be ever his affliction , and his mother's crime be the son's reproach ; the blot can never be wiped out by the most glorious actions ; nay , if it lives to raise a family , said I , the infamy ...
Page 74
... fortune to us , among the other cir- cumstances of it , that something caused the troops to halt in their march , a little before that particular rank came right against that window which I stood in , so that then we had occasion to ...
... fortune to us , among the other cir- cumstances of it , that something caused the troops to halt in their march , a little before that particular rank came right against that window which I stood in , so that then we had occasion to ...
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