The Lairds of Fife ...Constable & Company, 1828 - 920 страница |
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... once ? " " The weather favours , too , " said Miss Brown ; and she rose to adjourn to the music- room , to observe Mr Squeake simper and prelude upon the piano - forte ; who suspected that to be the surest , as well as the easiest ...
... once ? " " The weather favours , too , " said Miss Brown ; and she rose to adjourn to the music- room , to observe Mr Squeake simper and prelude upon the piano - forte ; who suspected that to be the surest , as well as the easiest ...
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... once more at his own dexterous incredulity . " No ; just two - and - twenty , " retorted the young lady with fierté . The young lady , however , had pursued a policy in this declaration much deeper than could have been , rationally ...
... once more at his own dexterous incredulity . " No ; just two - and - twenty , " retorted the young lady with fierté . The young lady , however , had pursued a policy in this declaration much deeper than could have been , rationally ...
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to its loss by constantly residing at a distance , there arrived from once bounteous India the only surviving kinsman of Mrs Fife . This gentleman's adventures had been many , but as he had left his native country against his ...
to its loss by constantly residing at a distance , there arrived from once bounteous India the only surviving kinsman of Mrs Fife . This gentleman's adventures had been many , but as he had left his native country against his ...
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... once white- harled walls sufficed still to point out to the lands of Fife , and the gentle baronies of Fiddler and Eppie , the drooping standard of their own long obliterated but now returning consequence . Mr McFarlane had concluded ...
... once white- harled walls sufficed still to point out to the lands of Fife , and the gentle baronies of Fiddler and Eppie , the drooping standard of their own long obliterated but now returning consequence . Mr McFarlane had concluded ...
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... ensconced amidst the multitude of their own more immediate affairs , -and bounds were once more put to her much - loved sphere of enterprise and exertion . CHAPTER II . And as an owl that in a THE LAIRDS OF FIFE . 15.
... ensconced amidst the multitude of their own more immediate affairs , -and bounds were once more put to her much - loved sphere of enterprise and exertion . CHAPTER II . And as an owl that in a THE LAIRDS OF FIFE . 15.
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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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