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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... seen an end of all the ready money during the long time I had lived in a state of ex- pectation for my husband , so I began to make away one thing after another , till those few things of value which I had began to lessen apace , and I ...
... seen an end of all the ready money during the long time I had lived in a state of ex- pectation for my husband , so I began to make away one thing after another , till those few things of value which I had began to lessen apace , and I ...
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... seen ; we had eaten up almost everything , and little remained , unless , like one of the pitiful women of Jerusalem , I should eat up my very children themselves . After these two good creatures had sat , as I say , in silence some ...
... seen ; we had eaten up almost everything , and little remained , unless , like one of the pitiful women of Jerusalem , I should eat up my very children themselves . After these two good creatures had sat , as I say , in silence some ...
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... seen me in a great while , and he looked extremely pleased to see me so ; for he said I looked so disconsolatc and so afflicted before , that it grieved him to see me ; and he bade me pluck up a good heart , for he hoped to put me in a ...
... seen me in a great while , and he looked extremely pleased to see me so ; for he said I looked so disconsolatc and so afflicted before , that it grieved him to see me ; and he bade me pluck up a good heart , for he hoped to put me in a ...
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... seen twice in the same dress ; to these he added several parcels of fine linen and of lace , so much that I had no room to ask for more , or , indeed , for so much . I took the liberty once , in our freedoms , to tell him he was too ...
... seen twice in the same dress ; to these he added several parcels of fine linen and of lace , so much that I had no room to ask for more , or , indeed , for so much . I took the liberty once , in our freedoms , to tell him he was too ...
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... seen it in its own natural colours , when no more blinded with the glittering appearances which at that time deluded me , and as in like cases , if I may guess at others by myself , too much possessed the mind ; I say , since this , I ...
... seen it in its own natural colours , when no more blinded with the glittering appearances which at that time deluded me , and as in like cases , if I may guess at others by myself , too much possessed the mind ; I say , since this , I ...
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