Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2James Crissy, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 136
... Mistress Debbitch . Almost immediately after this communication had taken place , a servant in mourning showed his thin , pinched , and wrinkled visage in the apartment , an- nouncing , with a voice more like a passing bell than the ...
... Mistress Debbitch . Almost immediately after this communication had taken place , a servant in mourning showed his thin , pinched , and wrinkled visage in the apartment , an- nouncing , with a voice more like a passing bell than the ...
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... Mistress Deborah Debbitch . Instigated , doubtless , by the pristine reminis- cences of former times , no sooner had that most prudent and considerate dame found herself in the vicinity of the scenes of her earlier days , than she ...
... Mistress Deborah Debbitch . Instigated , doubtless , by the pristine reminis- cences of former times , no sooner had that most prudent and considerate dame found herself in the vicinity of the scenes of her earlier days , than she ...
Page 147
... Mistress Debbitch , dressed in her very best gown , footed it through gutter and over stile , and by path- way green , to knock at their door , and to lift the latch at the hospitable invitation which bade her come in . Dame Ellesmere's ...
... Mistress Debbitch , dressed in her very best gown , footed it through gutter and over stile , and by path- way green , to knock at their door , and to lift the latch at the hospitable invitation which bade her come in . Dame Ellesmere's ...
Page 149
... Mistress Deborah's in- ferences , or to interrupt the velocity of speech with which she poured them forth . And when at length she made a breathless pause , all that poor Dame Ellesmere could reply , was the emphatic question ...
... Mistress Deborah's in- ferences , or to interrupt the velocity of speech with which she poured them forth . And when at length she made a breathless pause , all that poor Dame Ellesmere could reply , was the emphatic question ...
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... Mistress Deborah Debbitch . " You must remain here with my aunt , Mistress Deb ; and for old acquaintance sake , she will take care no harm befalls you , but take heed how attempt to break bounds . " you So saying , and pondering in his ...
... Mistress Deborah Debbitch . " You must remain here with my aunt , Mistress Deb ; and for old acquaintance sake , she will take care no harm befalls you , but take heed how attempt to break bounds . " you So saying , and pondering in his ...
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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.