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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... added to my affliction , but I had no recourse but to my tears , for I had not a friend of my own left me in the world . I should have observed , that it was about half a year before this elopement of my husband , that the disaster I ...
... added to my affliction , but I had no recourse but to my tears , for I had not a friend of my own left me in the world . I should have observed , that it was about half a year before this elopement of my husband , that the disaster I ...
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... added the melancholy part , viz . , that she would have helped me , but that indeed , she was not able , which , however , I was satisfied was very true . Here I relieved myself with the constant assistant of the AFFECTION OF MY MAID ...
... added the melancholy part , viz . , that she would have helped me , but that indeed , she was not able , which , however , I was satisfied was very true . Here I relieved myself with the constant assistant of the AFFECTION OF MY MAID ...
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... adding , I'll make you easy , if I can ; and in the mean time , he said , he would walk in the garden . When he was gone , Amy changed her countenance , indeed , and looked as merry as ever she did in her life . Dear madam , says she ...
... adding , I'll make you easy , if I can ; and in the mean time , he said , he would walk in the garden . When he was gone , Amy changed her countenance , indeed , and looked as merry as ever she did in her life . Dear madam , says she ...
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... added , smiling , that he would come the next day and take a night's lodging with me . I pressed him to stay that night , and told him I should be glad a friend so valuable should be under the same roof with me ; and indeed I began at ...
... added , smiling , that he would come the next day and take a night's lodging with me . I pressed him to stay that night , and told him I should be glad a friend so valuable should be under the same roof with me ; and indeed I began at ...
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... adding , We will have a supper , but t'other is impossible , as well on your side as mine ; he laughed ; Well , says he , you shall call it what you will , but it may be the same thing , for I shall satisfy you it is not so impossible ...
... adding , We will have a supper , but t'other is impossible , as well on your side as mine ; he laughed ; Well , says he , you shall call it what you will , but it may be the same thing , for I shall satisfy you it is not so impossible ...
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