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 90
... passed off , But I must confess I saw that he was quite another man as to women , than I understood he had always been before ; and it was a particular satisfaction to me , that I was thereby con- vinced that what he said was true , and ...
... passed off , But I must confess I saw that he was quite another man as to women , than I understood he had always been before ; and it was a particular satisfaction to me , that I was thereby con- vinced that what he said was true , and ...
Page 106
... passed in the ship between Dover and Calais , and saw beloved England once more under my view ; England , which I counted my native country , being the place I was bred up in , though not born there ; a strange kind of joy possessed my ...
... passed in the ship between Dover and Calais , and saw beloved England once more under my view ; England , which I counted my native country , being the place I was bred up in , though not born there ; a strange kind of joy possessed my ...
Page 134
... passed , he had nothing to do but secure me from reproach , by going back again to Paris , that so , accord- ing to my own way of arguing , it might die out of memory , and I might never meet with it again to my disadvantage . I was not ...
... passed , he had nothing to do but secure me from reproach , by going back again to Paris , that so , accord- ing to my own way of arguing , it might die out of memory , and I might never meet with it again to my disadvantage . I was not ...
Page 137
... passed between us , and by offering to quit all pretensions to any part of your estate , so that I should , as it were , take a wife after I had lain with her , and without a farthing portion , which as my circumstances are , I need not ...
... passed between us , and by offering to quit all pretensions to any part of your estate , so that I should , as it were , take a wife after I had lain with her , and without a farthing portion , which as my circumstances are , I need not ...
Page 143
... passed for a 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 ...
... passed for a 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 ...
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