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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... answer , or enter into discourse with him on the point he was upon , he would rise up in the greatest passion imaginable , and go away , which was the cheapest way I had to be delivered . MY FATHER AND MY HUSBAND'S FATHER DIES . I could ...
... answer , or enter into discourse with him on the point he was upon , he would rise up in the greatest passion imaginable , and go away , which was the cheapest way I had to be delivered . MY FATHER AND MY HUSBAND'S FATHER DIES . I could ...
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... answer , that they knew nothing about him ; and after frequent sending , began to think me troublesome , and to let me know they thought so too , by their treating my maid with very slight and unhandsome returns to her inquiries . This ...
... answer , that they knew nothing about him ; and after frequent sending , began to think me troublesome , and to let me know they thought so too , by their treating my maid with very slight and unhandsome returns to her inquiries . This ...
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... answers ; nor did any one of them offer to come to see me , or to see the children , or so much as to inquire after them , well perceiving that I was in a condition that was likely to be soon troublesome to them ; but it was no time now ...
... answers ; nor did any one of them offer to come to see me , or to see the children , or so much as to inquire after them , well perceiving that I was in a condition that was likely to be soon troublesome to them ; but it was no time now ...
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... answer was , No , she is gone ; at which I parleyed with one of them , and asked her what was the matter . Matter ! says she , why , it is matter enough : the poor gentlewoman has lived there all alone , and without anything to subsist ...
... answer was , No , she is gone ; at which I parleyed with one of them , and asked her what was the matter . Matter ! says she , why , it is matter enough : the poor gentlewoman has lived there all alone , and without anything to subsist ...
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... answered , that within those two limitations , I was sure I ought to deny him nothing , and I should think myself not ungrateful only , but very unjust , if I should ; so he said no more , but I observed he kissed me more , and took me ...
... answered , that within those two limitations , I was sure I ought to deny him nothing , and I should think myself not ungrateful only , but very unjust , if I should ; so he said no more , but I observed he kissed me more , and took me ...
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