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... much in inviting you to this meeting ; but I did not guess that I could have been so cruel both to you and to iyself , as to suffer you to discover what you have to - day seen too plainly — that I love you better than you love me .
... much in inviting you to this meeting ; but I did not guess that I could have been so cruel both to you and to iyself , as to suffer you to discover what you have to - day seen too plainly — that I love you better than you love me .
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She turned from them , disappeared among the underwood , and was seen no more . “ A true specimen of womankind , " said her father , looking after her , " who would give the cause of nations up , rather than endanger a hair of her ...
She turned from them , disappeared among the underwood , and was seen no more . “ A true specimen of womankind , " said her father , looking after her , " who would give the cause of nations up , rather than endanger a hair of her ...
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“ Pardon me , ” replied the Major ; “ no one has , as yet , seen you show yourself either . Interrupt me not - I question not your will to be both ; but you have hitherto neither had the light nor the opportunity necessary for the ...
“ Pardon me , ” replied the Major ; “ no one has , as yet , seen you show yourself either . Interrupt me not - I question not your will to be both ; but you have hitherto neither had the light nor the opportunity necessary for the ...
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And what are to be the results ? for I think you have already seen enough of the evils of civil war , to be weary of again awakening its terrors in a peaceful and happy country . ” “ They that are drenched with poisonous narcotics ...
And what are to be the results ? for I think you have already seen enough of the evils of civil war , to be weary of again awakening its terrors in a peaceful and happy country . ” “ They that are drenched with poisonous narcotics ...
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“ It is true , ” he said , “ I have been educated in a family where that faith is professed by one honoured individual , and that I have since travelled in Popish countries ; but even for these very reasons I have seen Popery too ...
“ It is true , ” he said , “ I have been educated in a family where that faith is professed by one honoured individual , and that I have since travelled in Popish countries ; but even for these very reasons I have seen Popery too ...
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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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