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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... jewels , as might be supposed , my fortune and former circumstances considered ; and my husband , who had never stayed to be distressed , had not been put to the necessity of rifling me , as husbands usually do in such cases . But as I ...
... jewels , as might be supposed , my fortune and former circumstances considered ; and my husband , who had never stayed to be distressed , had not been put to the necessity of rifling me , as husbands usually do in such cases . But as I ...
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... jewels , he had two men he intrusted , who he had good security for , and who managed for him , and cor- responded with him . Things being thus concerted , we went away to France , arrived safe at Calais , and by easy journeys came in ...
... jewels , he had two men he intrusted , who he had good security for , and who managed for him , and cor- responded with him . Things being thus concerted , we went away to France , arrived safe at Calais , and by easy journeys came in ...
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... jewels of very great value . It happened one day , that being to go to Versailles to wait upon the prince of he came up into my chamber in the morning , and laid out his jewel - case , because he was not going to show any jewels , but ...
... jewels of very great value . It happened one day , that being to go to Versailles to wait upon the prince of he came up into my chamber in the morning , and laid out his jewel - case , because he was not going to show any jewels , but ...
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... jewels he was carrying to the prince of to show some of them to him ; and the prince owned that he had spoken to him to bring some such jewels , to let him see them . But I sorely repented this part afterward , as you shall hear . This ...
... jewels he was carrying to the prince of to show some of them to him ; and the prince owned that he had spoken to him to bring some such jewels , to let him see them . But I sorely repented this part afterward , as you shall hear . This ...
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... jewels , sent his gentleman wit a very handsome compliment of condolence to me ; and his gentleman , whether with or without order , hinted as if his highness did intend to have visited me himself , but that some accident , which he ...
... jewels , sent his gentleman wit a very handsome compliment of condolence to me ; and his gentleman , whether with or without order , hinted as if his highness did intend to have visited me himself , but that some accident , which he ...
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