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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... once or twice his brewing utensils were extented for the excise ; and , the last time , he was put to great extremities to clear them . This alarmed him , and he resolved to lay down MY FATHER AND MY HUSBAND'S FATHER DIES. ...
... once or twice his brewing utensils were extented for the excise ; and , the last time , he was put to great extremities to clear them . This alarmed him , and he resolved to lay down MY FATHER AND MY HUSBAND'S FATHER DIES. ...
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... resolved to do so ; but just the very morning that I intended it , the old aunt , with the poor woman in her company , came to see me ; the good old gentle- woman was , it seems , heartily concerned for me , and had been talking again ...
... resolved to do so ; but just the very morning that I intended it , the old aunt , with the poor woman in her company , came to see me ; the good old gentle- woman was , it seems , heartily concerned for me , and had been talking again ...
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... resolved to send for ; but when they saw me , how I 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 ...
... resolved to send for ; but when they saw me , how I 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 ...
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... resolved for the present to do something to relieve me , and to employ his thoughts in the mean time , to see if he could , for the future , put me into a way to support myself . While he found me change colour , and look surprised at ...
... resolved for the present to do something to relieve me , and to employ his thoughts in the mean time , to see if he could , for the future , put me into a way to support myself . While he found me change colour , and look surprised at ...
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... resolved to ask nothing of me but what it was fit for a woman of virtue and modesty , for such he 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 ...
... resolved to ask nothing of me but what it was fit for a woman of virtue and modesty , for such he 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 ...
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