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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... offered to join my part to it , which was then in being , and might have been secured ; so we might have lived tolerably , at least during his life . But as it is the part of a fool to be void of counsel , so he neglected it , lived on ...
... offered to join my part to it , which was then in being , and might have been secured ; so we might have lived tolerably , at least during his life . But as it is the part of a fool to be void of counsel , so he neglected it , lived on ...
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... offered to eat or drink at two more near relations . The fifth , an ancient gentlewoman , aunt - in - law to my husband , a widow , and the least able also of any of the rest , did , indeed , ask me to sit down , gave me a dinner , and ...
... offered to eat or drink at two more near relations . The fifth , an ancient gentlewoman , aunt - in - law to my husband , a widow , and the least able also of any of the rest , did , indeed , ask me to sit down , gave me a dinner , and ...
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... offered to go back . Here , child , says Amy , take one of ' em in your hand , and I'll bring the rest ; so she gives her the least , and the wench goes in mighty innocently , with the little one in her hand , upon which Amy turns the ...
... offered to go back . Here , child , says Amy , take one of ' em in your hand , and I'll bring the rest ; so she gives her the least , and the wench goes in mighty innocently , with the little one in her hand , upon which Amy turns the ...
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... offered not the least of what my maid Amy had suggested . At his going away he took me in his arms , protested an honest kindness to me ; said a thousand kind things to me , which I cannot now recollect ; and after kissing me twenty ...
... offered not the least of what my maid Amy had suggested . At his going away he took me in his arms , protested an honest kindness to me ; said a thousand kind things to me , which I cannot now recollect ; and after kissing me twenty ...
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... in a husband ; and with that he kissed me again , and took me in his arms , but offered not the least uncivil action to me , and told me he hoped I would not deny him all MY LANDLORD DECLARES HIS LOVE . 27 the favours he 26 ROXANA .
... in a husband ; and with that he kissed me again , and took me in his arms , but offered not the least uncivil action to me , and told me he hoped I would not deny him all MY LANDLORD DECLARES HIS LOVE . 27 the favours he 26 ROXANA .
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