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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... looked into my own circumstances , and considered the condition in which I was left , with five children , and not one farthing subsistence for them , other than about seventy pounds in money , and what few things of value I had about ...
... looked into my own circumstances , and considered the condition in which I was left , with five children , and not one farthing subsistence for them , other than about seventy pounds in money , and what few things of value I had about ...
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... looked , for my eyes were swelled with crying , and what a condition I was in as to the house , and the heaps of things that were about me , and especially when I told them what I was doing , and on what occasion , they sat down , like ...
... looked , for my eyes were swelled with crying , and what a condition I was in as to the house , and the heaps of things that were about me , and especially when I told them what I was doing , and on what occasion , they sat down , like ...
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... looked kinder upon me , and spoke more friendly to me than he used to do ; particularly the last two or three times he had been there , he observed , he said , how poorly I lived , how low I was reduced , and the like ; told me it ...
... looked kinder upon me , and spoke more friendly to me than he used to do ; particularly the last two or three times he had been there , he observed , he said , how poorly I lived , how low I was reduced , and the like ; told me it ...
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... Amy made him a curtsy , and the poor girl looked so con- rounded with joy , that she could not speak , but her colour came and went , and every now and then she blushed as red GENEROSITY OF MY LANDLORD . 21 as scarlet , and 20 ROXANA .
... Amy made him a curtsy , and the poor girl looked so con- rounded with joy , that she could not speak , but her colour came and went , and every now and then she blushed as red GENEROSITY OF MY LANDLORD . 21 as scarlet , and 20 ROXANA .
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... looked as pale as death . Well , having said this , he sat down , made me sit down , and then drank to me , and made me drink two glasses of wine together ; For , says he , you have need of it ; and so indeed I had . When he had done so ...
... looked as pale as death . Well , having said this , he sat down , made me sit down , and then drank to me , and made me drink two glasses of wine together ; For , says he , you have need of it ; and so indeed I had . When he had done so ...
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