Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2James Crissy, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 24
... Leaving his faithful companion , Fairy , in the yillage as before , Julian entered the Castle , and found all within in the same state of quietness and good order which external appear- ances had announced . CHAPTER II . Now rede me ...
... Leaving his faithful companion , Fairy , in the yillage as before , Julian entered the Castle , and found all within in the same state of quietness and good order which external appear- ances had announced . CHAPTER II . Now rede me ...
Page 38
... leave Man with- out his company . And if he went with you , your noble and disinterested kindness would be of no avail - you would but share his ruin , as the swim- mer who attempts to save a drowning man is in- volved in his fate , if ...
... leave Man with- out his company . And if he went with you , your noble and disinterested kindness would be of no avail - you would but share his ruin , as the swim- mer who attempts to save a drowning man is in- volved in his fate , if ...
Page 40
... leave you , dearest Alice , " thus ran the letter , " I leave you ; and though , in doing so , I but obey the command you have laid on me , yet I can claim little merit for my compliance , since , without ad- ditional and most forcible ...
... leave you , dearest Alice , " thus ran the letter , " I leave you ; and though , in doing so , I but obey the command you have laid on me , yet I can claim little merit for my compliance , since , without ad- ditional and most forcible ...
Page 46
... leave Man for 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 ...
... leave Man for 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 ...
Page 53
... leaving them no means of preventing her entrance , save by actual violence , to which appa- rently they did not choose to have recourse . Once on deck she took the captain by the sleeve , and led him to the head of the vessel ; where ...
... leaving them no means of preventing her entrance , save by actual violence , to which appa- rently they did not choose to have recourse . Once on deck she took the captain by the sleeve , and led him to the head of the vessel ; where ...
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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.