The Lairds of Fife ...Constable & Company, 1828 - 920 страница |
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... party , as it were , in the newly awakened con- sequence of the Fife family , as it was called ; still , however , he ran a risk of becoming ennuyé , if , in defect of agricultural knowledge , he had not resolved upon substituting a new ...
... party , as it were , in the newly awakened con- sequence of the Fife family , as it was called ; still , however , he ran a risk of becoming ennuyé , if , in defect of agricultural knowledge , he had not resolved upon substituting a new ...
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... parties of pleasure on a ramble . On such occasions , Mrs Fife's activity in the prosecution of her favourite passion surpassed , in inquisitiveness and research , the cleverest efforts of the most dexterous tourists ; and if any such ...
... parties of pleasure on a ramble . On such occasions , Mrs Fife's activity in the prosecution of her favourite passion surpassed , in inquisitiveness and research , the cleverest efforts of the most dexterous tourists ; and if any such ...
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... party thus described had proceeded― chaperoned by a dour - looking housemaid ; for Mrs Fife had long since found out , that mere douce attendants , though very subservient to her VOL . I. B purpose , were rather less so to her dignity ...
... party thus described had proceeded― chaperoned by a dour - looking housemaid ; for Mrs Fife had long since found out , that mere douce attendants , though very subservient to her VOL . I. B purpose , were rather less so to her dignity ...
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... parties were not at all unwilling to ac- knowledge , that they had never heard of such persons ; and Miss Kicklecackle , who had been as yet rather cautious as to how she should de- mean herself in her new situation , now broke forth ...
... parties were not at all unwilling to ac- knowledge , that they had never heard of such persons ; and Miss Kicklecackle , who had been as yet rather cautious as to how she should de- mean herself in her new situation , now broke forth ...
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... party's retreat , that when Miss Kicklecackle , like another Mr Pry , suddenly re - entered the last abandoned room for her . parasol , she caught not only a glimpse , but a full - face view of a thin , little , active figure , talled ...
... party's retreat , that when Miss Kicklecackle , like another Mr Pry , suddenly re - entered the last abandoned room for her . parasol , she caught not only a glimpse , but a full - face view of a thin , little , active figure , talled ...
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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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