Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2James Crissy, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 46
... London . -Can you be ready to go on board to - morrow ? " " To - night - this instant if you will , " said Juli- an , " my little preparations are complete . " - your " Be ready , then , in your chamber , at two hours after midnight . I ...
... London . -Can you be ready to go on board to - morrow ? " " To - night - this instant if you will , " said Juli- an , " my little preparations are complete . " - your " Be ready , then , in your chamber , at two hours after midnight . I ...
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... London had plainly reached even this remote sea - port , and was received by the inhabitants with the peculiar stormy energy which invests men in their situation with the cha- racter of the winds and waves with which they are chiefly ...
... London had plainly reached even this remote sea - port , and was received by the inhabitants with the peculiar stormy energy which invests men in their situation with the cha- racter of the winds and waves with which they are chiefly ...
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... London . Truly , I think such a narrative , well spiced with a few horrors , and published cum privilegio parliamenti , might , though the market be somewhat overstocked , be still worth some twenty or thirty pieces . " " You seem to ...
... London . Truly , I think such a narrative , well spiced with a few horrors , and published cum privilegio parliamenti , might , though the market be somewhat overstocked , be still worth some twenty or thirty pieces . " " You seem to ...
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... London , than turn aside for any purpose whatever . You may see already , that I am no ordinary person , but a master - spirit of the time . For the cuckoo I travel with , and whom I indulge in his prodigal follies , he also has his ...
... London , than turn aside for any purpose whatever . You may see already , that I am no ordinary person , but a master - spirit of the time . For the cuckoo I travel with , and whom I indulge in his prodigal follies , he also has his ...
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... London . " " It was I said so , Master Topham , " said the undaunted Dangerfield ; " and mine is the tongue that will swear it . " " Good Master Topham , " said Bridgenorth , " you may suspend further inquiry at present , as it doth but ...
... London . " " It was I said so , Master Topham , " said the undaunted Dangerfield ; " and mine is the tongue that will swear it . " " Good Master Topham , " said Bridgenorth , " you may suspend further inquiry at present , as it doth but ...
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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.