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“ Even so I judged of you , and therefore , I asked this interview , to conjure you that you will break off all intercourse with our family - return to your parents - or , what will be much safer , visit the continent once more ...
“ Even so I judged of you , and therefore , I asked this interview , to conjure you that you will break off all intercourse with our family - return to your parents - or , what will be much safer , visit the continent once more ...
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But we are Englishmen ; and with us such unnatural lethargy can not continue long . Already , many of those who most desired the return of Charles Stuart , regard him as a King whom Heaven , importunate by our entreaties , gave to us ...
But we are Englishmen ; and with us such unnatural lethargy can not continue long . Already , many of those who most desired the return of Charles Stuart , regard him as a King whom Heaven , importunate by our entreaties , gave to us ...
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Peveril remembered the warning which he had received from Alice , and bent his eyes on the ground , without returning any reply . “ How is it , young man , ” continued Bridgenorth , after a pause ; “ so young as thou art , and bound by ...
Peveril remembered the warning which he had received from Alice , and bent his eyes on the ground , without returning any reply . “ How is it , young man , ” continued Bridgenorth , after a pause ; “ so young as thou art , and bound by ...
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Nay , I desire no thanks -- I have to require of you , in return , a piece of service , not perhaps entirely safe to yourself , but which , as times are circumstanced no person is so well able to render to my house .
Nay , I desire no thanks -- I have to require of you , in return , a piece of service , not perhaps entirely safe to yourself , but which , as times are circumstanced no person is so well able to render to my house .
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The man returned in a few minutes , sobered by terror , his mouth gaping , and his hair standing on end ; but , unhappily for the lovers of the marvellous , altogether unable to disclose the horrors which he had seen .
The man returned in a few minutes , sobered by terror , his mouth gaping , and his hair standing on end ; but , unhappily for the lovers of the marvellous , altogether unable to disclose the horrors which he had seen .
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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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