Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2James Crissy, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 31
... lady , " said Peveril , " why will you distress yourself with fixing your eye on deficien- cies which arise rather from a change of times and manners , than any degeneracy of my noble friend ? Let him be once engaged in his duty ...
... lady , " said Peveril , " why will you distress yourself with fixing your eye on deficien- cies which arise rather from a change of times and manners , than any degeneracy of my noble friend ? Let him be once engaged in his duty ...
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... lady , " said Peveril , " you must allow that the duties to which the times sum- moned your late honoured lord were of a more stir- ring , as well as a more peremptory cast , than those which await your son . " I know not that , " said ...
... lady , " said Peveril , " you must allow that the duties to which the times sum- moned your late honoured lord were of a more stir- ring , as well as a more peremptory cast , than those which await your son . " I know not that , " said ...
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... lady , " said Julian , " this can not be . The noble and generous people of En- gland can not be thus strangely misled . Whatever prepossessions may be current among the more vulgar , the Houses of Legislature can not be deeply infected ...
... lady , " said Julian , " this can not be . The noble and generous people of En- gland can not be thus strangely misled . Whatever prepossessions may be current among the more vulgar , the Houses of Legislature can not be deeply infected ...
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... lady . You will do well , perhaps , to use a feigned name in London . " " Pardon me , madam , " said Julian ; " I will do nothing that can draw on me unnecessary attention ; but to bear a feigned name , or affect any disguise beyond ...
... lady . You will do well , perhaps , to use a feigned name in London . " " Pardon me , madam , " said Julian ; " I will do nothing that can draw on me unnecessary attention ; but to bear a feigned name , or affect any disguise beyond ...
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... Lady of Latham to thrust her friend's son on the danger which should have been found by her own . But O , Julian , I am now a forlorn widow , whom sorrow has made selfish . " " Tush , madam , " answered Peveril ; " it is more unlike the ...
... Lady of Latham to thrust her friend's son on the danger which should have been found by her own . But O , Julian , I am now a forlorn widow , whom sorrow has made selfish . " " Tush , madam , " answered Peveril ; " it is more unlike the ...
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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.