Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2James Crissy, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... Derby is more than enough to inspire him with suspicions of my faith , from which , thank Heaven , I can vindicate myself with truth and good con- science . " So thinking , he again adjusted the girths of his palfrey , replaced the bit ...
... Derby is more than enough to inspire him with suspicions of my faith , from which , thank Heaven , I can vindicate myself with truth and good con- science . " So thinking , he again adjusted the girths of his palfrey , replaced the bit ...
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... Derby , busied in looking over some of the new publications which had been forwarded from Lon- don ; and at intervals confessing how little power or interest these had for him , by yawning fearfully as he looked out on the solitary ...
... Derby , busied in looking over some of the new publications which had been forwarded from Lon- don ; and at intervals confessing how little power or interest these had for him , by yawning fearfully as he looked out on the solitary ...
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... Derby . He is your friend - he is my son . He has kindness of heart , and vivacity of talent ; and yet— ” " Dearest lady , " said Peveril , " why will you distress yourself with fixing your eye on deficien- cies which arise rather from ...
... Derby . He is your friend - he is my son . He has kindness of heart , and vivacity of talent ; and yet— ” " Dearest lady , " said Peveril , " why will you distress yourself with fixing your eye on deficien- cies which arise rather from ...
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... Derby already told me something of this , " said Julian ; and that there were agents in this is- land whose object was to excite insurrection . " " Yes , " answered the Countess , and her eye flashed fire as she spoke ; " and had my ...
... Derby already told me something of this , " said Julian ; and that there were agents in this is- land whose object was to excite insurrection . " " Yes , " answered the Countess , and her eye flashed fire as she spoke ; " and had my ...
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... Derby goes to Lon- don while these blood - hounds are in full cry , ob- noxious as he is , and as I have made him by my religious faith , and my conduct in this island , he dies his father's death . And yet upon what other course to ...
... Derby goes to Lon- don while these blood - hounds are in full cry , ob- noxious as he is , and as I have made him by my religious faith , and my conduct in this island , he dies his father's death . And yet upon what other course to ...
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Page 194 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.