The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe, Volume 4Bell & Daldy, 1854 |
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Page 7
... looked out towards the stables , and sounds his French horn , as he called it , which was his usual signal to call his men to go out a hunting . It was about the latter end of August , and so was light yet at five o'clock , and it was ...
... looked out towards the stables , and sounds his French horn , as he called it , which was his usual signal to call his men to go out a hunting . It was about the latter end of August , and so was light yet at five o'clock , and it was ...
Page 8
... looked into my own circumstances , and considered the condition in which I was left , with five children , and not one farthing subsistence for them , other than about seventy pounds in money , and what few things of value I had about ...
... looked into my own circumstances , and considered the condition in which I was left , with five children , and not one farthing subsistence for them , other than about seventy pounds in money , and what few things of value I had about ...
Page 12
... looked , for my eyes were swelled with crying , and what a condition I was in as to the house , and the heaps of things that were about me , and especially when I told them what I was doing , and on what occasion , they sat down , like ...
... looked , for my eyes were swelled with crying , and what a condition I was in as to the house , and the heaps of things that were about me , and especially when I told them what I was doing , and on what occasion , they sat down , like ...
Page 19
... looked kinder upon me , and spoke more friendly to me than he used to do ; particularly the last two or three times he had been there , he observed , he said , how poorly I lived , how low I was reduced , and the like ; told me it ...
... looked kinder upon me , and spoke more friendly to me than he used to do ; particularly the last two or three times he had been there , he observed , he said , how poorly I lived , how low I was reduced , and the like ; told me it ...
Page 20
... Amy made him a curtsy , and the poor girl looked so con- founded with joy , that she could not speak , but her colour came and went , and every now and then she blushed as red GENEROSITY OF MY LANDLORD . 21 as scarlet , and 20 ROXANA .
... Amy made him a curtsy , and the poor girl looked so con- founded with joy , that she could not speak , but her colour came and went , and every now and then she blushed as red GENEROSITY OF MY LANDLORD . 21 as scarlet , and 20 ROXANA .
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