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Page 12
Once more , I warn you , avoid my father - leave this island , which will be soon agitated by strange incidents -- while you stay , be on your guard - distrust every thing - be jealous of every one , even of those to whom it may seem ...
Once more , I warn you , avoid my father - leave this island , which will be soon agitated by strange incidents -- while you stay , be on your guard - distrust every thing - be jealous of every one , even of those to whom it may seem ...
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“ I understand you not , sir , " replied Julian Peveril , who , feeling the necessity of saying something , could not , at the moment , find any thing more fitting to say . 6. Yes , sir , I thank you , " said Major Bridgenorth , in the ...
“ I understand you not , sir , " replied Julian Peveril , who , feeling the necessity of saying something , could not , at the moment , find any thing more fitting to say . 6. Yes , sir , I thank you , " said Major Bridgenorth , in the ...
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“ Well , young man , one thing has pleased me in your conduct , though of much I have my reasons to complain - one thing has pleased me . You have surmounted that bounding wall of aristocratical pride in which your father , and , I ...
“ Well , young man , one thing has pleased me in your conduct , though of much I have my reasons to complain - one thing has pleased me . You have surmounted that bounding wall of aristocratical pride in which your father , and , I ...
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But let me hope better things . Bridgenorth , though strong - minded and sagacious , is haunted by the fears of Popery , which are the bugbears of his sect . My residence in the family of the Countess of Derby is more than enough to ...
But let me hope better things . Bridgenorth , though strong - minded and sagacious , is haunted by the fears of Popery , which are the bugbears of his sect . My residence in the family of the Countess of Derby is more than enough to ...
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... remember any thing , when hurried away by the violence of party feeling ? Even those who have too much sense to believe in the incredible fictions which gull the multitude , will beware how they expose them , if their own political ...
... remember any thing , when hurried away by the violence of party feeling ? Even those who have too much sense to believe in the incredible fictions which gull the multitude , will beware how they expose them , if their own political ...
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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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