Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2James Crissy, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... , and thereby had brought restraint upon their intercourse . " Julian , " she said ; " your visit of yesterday- your most ill - timed visit , has distressed me much . It has misled my father - it has endangered you 4 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK .
... , and thereby had brought restraint upon their intercourse . " Julian , " she said ; " your visit of yesterday- your most ill - timed visit , has distressed me much . It has misled my father - it has endangered you 4 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK .
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... father has expressed towards me , are of a nature irrecon- cilable with hostile purposes . If he is not offend- ed with the bold wishes I may have formed , and his whole behaviour shows the contrary , I know not a man on earth from whom ...
... father has expressed towards me , are of a nature irrecon- cilable with hostile purposes . If he is not offend- ed with the bold wishes I may have formed , and his whole behaviour shows the contrary , I know not a man on earth from whom ...
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... father's especial line of politics differs widely from mine , I know well ; but how many instances have occurred , even during the bloody scenes of civil warfare , of good and worthy men laying the prejudice of party affec- tions aside ...
... father's especial line of politics differs widely from mine , I know well ; but how many instances have occurred , even during the bloody scenes of civil warfare , of good and worthy men laying the prejudice of party affec- tions aside ...
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... father dangerous ? Believe not so ; his speech has already made impression on me in some particulars , and he ... father's powers , and his purpose with respect to you , and who overrate your own powers of re- sistance . I am but a girl ...
... father dangerous ? Believe not so ; his speech has already made impression on me in some particulars , and he ... father's powers , and his purpose with respect to you , and who overrate your own powers of re- sistance . I am but a girl ...
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... father ? -The good old cause , as it is termed , is dearer to him than a thousand daughters , and setting him aside , what tie is there between you and this barren isle- between my Alice and any spot of the British do- minions , where ...
... father ? -The good old cause , as it is termed , is dearer to him than a thousand daughters , and setting him aside , what tie is there between you and this barren isle- between my Alice and any spot of the British do- minions , where ...
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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.