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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... appearance of anything of what you imagined , in his behaviour ? Yes , says Amy , I am , but I admire at it ; he is such a friend as the world sure has not abundance of to show . I am sure , says I , he is such a friend as I have long ...
... appearance of anything of what you imagined , in his behaviour ? Yes , says Amy , I am , but I admire at it ; he is such a friend as the world sure has not abundance of to show . I am sure , says I , he is such a friend as I have long ...
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... appearance , we lived as cheerfully and agreeably as it was possible for any couple in the world to live . After I had thus lived with him something above two year , truly I found myself with child too ; my gentleman was mightily ...
... appearance , we lived as cheerfully and agreeably as it was possible for any couple in the world to live . After I had thus lived with him something above two year , truly I found myself with child too ; my gentleman was mightily ...
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... appeared as a widow , yet , as we say in England , it was of a widow comforted . I took care to let the ladies see that I knew how to receive them , that I was not at a loss how to behave to any of them ; and , in short , I began to be ...
... appeared as a widow , yet , as we say in England , it was of a widow comforted . I took care to let the ladies see that I knew how to receive them , that I was not at a loss how to behave to any of them ; and , in short , I began to be ...
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... appeared in the house but his gentleman and my maid Amy ; and of her I bid the gentle- man acquaint his highness that she was an English woman , that she did not understand a word of French , and that she was one also that might be ...
... appeared in the house but his gentleman and my maid Amy ; and of her I bid the gentle- man acquaint his highness that she was an English woman , that she did not understand a word of French , and that she was one also that might be ...
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... appeared , and when any of the neighbours and ser- vants inquired , she answered , in broken French , that I was gone to England to look after my affairs , which presently went current through the streets about us . For you are to note ...
... appeared , and when any of the neighbours and ser- vants inquired , she answered , in broken French , that I was gone to England to look after my affairs , which presently went current through the streets about us . For you are to note ...
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