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I thank you for the hints you have thrown out before my appearance , the suddenness of which alone has prevented you from carrying your confidence to a pitch which would have placed my life and that of others at the discretion of a boy ...
I thank you for the hints you have thrown out before my appearance , the suddenness of which alone has prevented you from carrying your confidence to a pitch which would have placed my life and that of others at the discretion of a boy ...
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Leaving his faithful companion , Fairy , in the yillage as before , Julian entered the Castle , and found all within in the same state of quietness and good order which external appearances had announced . CHAPTER II .
Leaving his faithful companion , Fairy , in the yillage as before , Julian entered the Castle , and found all within in the same state of quietness and good order which external appearances had announced . CHAPTER II .
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They now stood in the castle - yard , in the open moonlight , which glimmered white and ghastly on the variety of strange and ruinous objects to which we have formerly alluded , and which gave the scene rather the appearance of some ...
They now stood in the castle - yard , in the open moonlight , which glimmered white and ghastly on the variety of strange and ruinous objects to which we have formerly alluded , and which gave the scene rather the appearance of some ...
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Julian , who was no despicable horse - jockey , selected for his purpose a strong well - made horse , about sixteen hands high , and had him led into the yard , to see whether his paces corresponded with his appearance .
Julian , who was no despicable horse - jockey , selected for his purpose a strong well - made horse , about sixteen hands high , and had him led into the yard , to see whether his paces corresponded with his appearance .
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1 - I believe so , ” said Peveril , not much read in Chaucer , who was then even more neglected than at present ; and much surprised at a literary quotation from one of the mean appearance exhibited by the person before him .
1 - I believe so , ” said Peveril , not much read in Chaucer , who was then even more neglected than at present ; and much surprised at a literary quotation from one of the mean appearance exhibited by the person before him .
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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.
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| Title | Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2 Peveril of the Peak, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | James Crissy, 1826 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jan 25, 2007 |
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