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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... pestered with a great many of those who , for any religion they had , might e'en have stayed where they were , but who flocked over VOL . IV . B hither in droves , for what they call in English THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS; ...
... pestered with a great many of those who , for any religion they had , might e'en have stayed where they were , but who flocked over VOL . IV . B hither in droves , for what they call in English THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS; ...
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... stayed to be distressed , had not been put to the necessity of rifling me , as husbands usually do in such cases . But as I had seen an end of all the ready money during the long time I had lived in a state of ex- pectation for my ...
... stayed to be distressed , had not been put to the necessity of rifling me , as husbands usually do in such cases . But as I had seen an end of all the ready money during the long time I had lived in a state of ex- pectation for my ...
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... stayed till a maid - servant came to the door ; Sweetheart , said she , pray go in and tell your mistress here are her little cousins come to see her from -9 naming the town where we lived , at which the maid offered to go back . Here ...
... stayed till a maid - servant came to the door ; Sweetheart , said she , pray go in and tell your mistress here are her little cousins come to see her from -9 naming the town where we lived , at which the maid offered to go back . Here ...
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... worse , said they , can come to them than staying here , for they were almost starved with hunger ; so the neighbours , seeing the poor lady in such distress , for she stood crying MY CHILDREN SENT TO THEIR AUNT. ...
... worse , said they , can come to them than staying here , for they were almost starved with hunger ; so the neighbours , seeing the poor lady in such distress , for she stood crying MY CHILDREN SENT TO THEIR AUNT. ...
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... stay that night , business requir- ing him in London , but added , smiling , that he would come the next day and take a night's lodging with me . I pressed him to stay that night , and told him I should be glad a friend so valuable ...
... stay that night , business requir- ing him in London , but added , smiling , that he would come the next day and take a night's lodging with me . I pressed him to stay that night , and told him I should be glad a friend so valuable ...
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