Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2James Crissy, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... thought upon you , will he not think that your happiness , your security is better cared for when you are my wife , than were you to continue under the merce- nary charge of yonder foolish woman ? What could his pride desire better for ...
... thought upon you , will he not think that your happiness , your security is better cared for when you are my wife , than were you to continue under the merce- nary charge of yonder foolish woman ? What could his pride desire better for ...
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... thought with the vulgar , that gentle manners went with gentle blood . But perhaps courtesy is too chival- rous a quality to be wasted in intercourse with a 2 * PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 13 than a cold sternness of manner in his speech and ...
... thought with the vulgar , that gentle manners went with gentle blood . But perhaps courtesy is too chival- rous a quality to be wasted in intercourse with a 2 * PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 13 than a cold sternness of manner in his speech and ...
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... thought of seeing her , save through me . I accept not thy suit , neither do I reject it ; only this I intimate to you , that he who would be my son , must first show himself the true and loving child of his oppressed and deluded ...
... thought of seeing her , save through me . I accept not thy suit , neither do I reject it ; only this I intimate to you , that he who would be my son , must first show himself the true and loving child of his oppressed and deluded ...
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... - the intended massacres— form a collection of falsehoods , that one would have thought indigestible , even by the coarse ap- VOL . II.4 1 petite of the vulgar for the marvellous and horrible PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 33.
... - the intended massacres— form a collection of falsehoods , that one would have thought indigestible , even by the coarse ap- VOL . II.4 1 petite of the vulgar for the marvellous and horrible PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 33.
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... thoughts which speedily pressed on him . He found that half an hour's conversation had once more completely changed his immediate prospects and plans for the future . He had offered to the Countess of Derby a service which her uni- form ...
... thoughts which speedily pressed on him . He found that half an hour's conversation had once more completely changed his immediate prospects and plans for the future . He had offered to the Countess of Derby a service which her uni- form ...
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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.