The Lairds of Fife ...Constable & Company, 1828 - 920 страница |
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... late season of bustle and activity . The same fair weather that should carry off her stale neighbours as a plague , would draw round her haunts a multitude of those wandering encyclo- pædias with whom the Hall was occasionally in ...
... late season of bustle and activity . The same fair weather that should carry off her stale neighbours as a plague , would draw round her haunts a multitude of those wandering encyclo- pædias with whom the Hall was occasionally in ...
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... late eccentric guests , who , as we have seen , had suddenly escaped her clutches , and at the very moment , too , when she supposed herself most secure of their company . The parties had disentangled themselves also in such a manner as ...
... late eccentric guests , who , as we have seen , had suddenly escaped her clutches , and at the very moment , too , when she supposed herself most secure of their company . The parties had disentangled themselves also in such a manner as ...
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... late discovery might have exposed her - for the day's excursion was now beginning somehow or other to cause her spirits to flag - she rode away infinitely content- ed with her own management and dexterity . But somebody had noticed her ...
... late discovery might have exposed her - for the day's excursion was now beginning somehow or other to cause her spirits to flag - she rode away infinitely content- ed with her own management and dexterity . But somebody had noticed her ...
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... disgust she experienced at the false conduct of her friends the Shams , helped to serve at least the purpose , if not of a quietus , yet of laying the late inquiry upon a still more settled foundation THE LAIRDS OF FIFE . 55.
... disgust she experienced at the false conduct of her friends the Shams , helped to serve at least the purpose , if not of a quietus , yet of laying the late inquiry upon a still more settled foundation THE LAIRDS OF FIFE . 55.
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laying the late inquiry upon a still more settled foundation . Mrs Fife's expedition , however , gave trouble , as shall be told , in some other quarter . " I have bad news for you , Cecilia , " said Colonel Brown one morning , coming ...
laying the late inquiry upon a still more settled foundation . Mrs Fife's expedition , however , gave trouble , as shall be told , in some other quarter . " I have bad news for you , Cecilia , " said Colonel Brown one morning , coming ...
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agreeable Akenside amongst answer aunt began better body called carriage Cecilia clack cold Colonel Brown compliments crasy cried Miss cried Mrs Fife daughter dear Miss Leslie dear Mrs Fife dexterity dinner door Dudd Edmonstones father favour Fife-hall Fife's Fifeshire friends game at chess gentleman Gregory happy hear heard Hochytoch honour hope Horn Regular Hyndford intend invitation Jemima John Lady Methodical lady's laugh look Lord Aloof Lums Lumsdaine's M'Pech Ma'am Madam Mademoiselle Antoinette Madrake Madrake's Marchmont Maringle mean mind Miss Brown Miss Kicklecackle Miss M'Tavish Monotony morning never night o'clock observed occasion odd trick once papa party person play poor pray pretended pretty racter rake rest returned seat seems sometimes sort Squeake suppose talk taste tell thing thought tion uncon voice vomitory Vonpepper and M'Ginger wish wonder young lady
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Страница 74 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones That ebb and flow by the moon.
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