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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... knew of , and I hoped would do something for me ; and I frequently sent to these , to know if they could give me any account of my vagrant creature ; but they all declared to me in answer , that they knew nothing about him ; and after ...
... knew of , and I hoped would do something for me ; and I frequently sent to these , to know if they could give me any account of my vagrant creature ; but they all declared to me in answer , that they knew nothing about him ; and after ...
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... knew how things were , and bade me make no scruple about bringing cut what I had . He hoped to see me in a better plight . He did not come , he said , to be entertained , but to entertain me , and comfort and encourage me . Thus he went ...
... knew how things were , and bade me make no scruple about bringing cut what I had . He hoped to see me in a better plight . He did not come , he said , to be entertained , but to entertain me , and comfort and encourage me . Thus he went ...
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... knew what gratitude meant ; that he would make it his business to make me completely easy , first or last , if it lay in his power ; and in the mean time , he bade me consider of anything that I thought he might do for me , for my ...
... knew what gratitude meant ; that he would make it his business to make me completely easy , first or last , if it lay in his power ; and in the mean time , he bade me consider of anything that I thought he might do for me , for my ...
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... knew me to be , to yield . I confess the terrible pressure of my former misery , the memory of which lay heavy upon my mind , and the surprising kindness with which he had delivered me , and withal , the expectations of what he might ...
... knew me to be , to yield . I confess the terrible pressure of my former misery , the memory of which lay heavy upon my mind , and the surprising kindness with which he had delivered me , and withal , the expectations of what he might ...
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... knew that I was the principal occasion of it ; and as he was the best - humoured man in the world , I never gave him over till I prevailed with him to be easy with her , and as I was now become the devil's agent , to make others as ...
... knew that I was the principal occasion of it ; and as he was the best - humoured man in the world , I never gave him over till I prevailed with him to be easy with her , and as I was now become the devil's agent , to make others as ...
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