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Page 47
All blessings attend you , madam . Commend me to Derby , and make him my I will expect a summons at two hours after midnight . ” They took an affectionate leave of each other ; the more affectionate , indeed , on the part of the ...
All blessings attend you , madam . Commend me to Derby , and make him my I will expect a summons at two hours after midnight . ” They took an affectionate leave of each other ; the more affectionate , indeed , on the part of the ...
Page 137
Yet when the slight bustle took place which attends the adjusting of chairs , & c . , as men sit down to table , Julian's eye encountered that of the stranger ; and as their looks met , there glanced from those of the latter ...
Yet when the slight bustle took place which attends the adjusting of chairs , & c . , as men sit down to table , Julian's eye encountered that of the stranger ; and as their looks met , there glanced from those of the latter ...
Page 144
Were I to accept your offer of freedom , it would be to attend to a higher call than that of mere self - preservation . My father is in danger --- my mother in sorrow - the voices of religion and nature call me to their side .
Were I to accept your offer of freedom , it would be to attend to a higher call than that of mere self - preservation . My father is in danger --- my mother in sorrow - the voices of religion and nature call me to their side .
Page 149
Peveril in his own Castle of Martindale , sounded so stunningly strange in the ears of those old retainers of his family , that they had no power either to attend to Mistress Deborah's inferences , or to interrupt the velocity of speech ...
Peveril in his own Castle of Martindale , sounded so stunningly strange in the ears of those old retainers of his family , that they had no power either to attend to Mistress Deborah's inferences , or to interrupt the velocity of speech ...
Page 166
... attend upon him for a few minutes , till he should depart from Moultrassie . But ere leaving the Hall , he could not repress his desire to speak with Bridgenorth in secret ; and advancing towards him , he expressed such a desire .
... attend upon him for a few minutes , till he should depart from Moultrassie . But ere leaving the Hall , he could not repress his desire to speak with Bridgenorth in secret ; and advancing towards him , he expressed such a desire .
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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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