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Side 10
... Fair- ford only saw the more direct mode of continued restraint , which , however , he was desirous of veiling under some plausible pretext . In the anxiety which he felt on this occasion , he had held communication with an old ...
... Fair- ford only saw the more direct mode of continued restraint , which , however , he was desirous of veiling under some plausible pretext . In the anxiety which he felt on this occasion , he had held communication with an old ...
Side 21
... fair play to the first pleading of a counsel , which the House of Commons yields to the maiden speech of one of its members . Lord Bladderscate was an exception to this ge- neral expression of benevolence . He scowled upon Alan from ...
... fair play to the first pleading of a counsel , which the House of Commons yields to the maiden speech of one of its members . Lord Bladderscate was an exception to this ge- neral expression of benevolence . He scowled upon Alan from ...
Side 27
... Fair- ford from point to point . He had further to ob- serve , there was one point of the case to which his brother , whose attention had been otherwise so wonderfully comprehensive , had not given the consideration which he expected ...
... Fair- ford from point to point . He had further to ob- serve , there was one point of the case to which his brother , whose attention had been otherwise so wonderfully comprehensive , had not given the consideration which he expected ...
Side 38
... Fair- ford looked around in alarm , his eye was arrest- ed by a sealed letter lying upon his son's writing- table , and addressed to himself . It contained the following words : - " MY DEAREST FATHER , " You will not , 38 CHAP . II ...
... Fair- ford looked around in alarm , his eye was arrest- ed by a sealed letter lying upon his son's writing- table , and addressed to himself . It contained the following words : - " MY DEAREST FATHER , " You will not , 38 CHAP . II ...
Side 45
... Fair- ford . " Shew Mr Dean into the parlour . " In going slowly down stairs , step by step , the perplexed man of business had time enough to re- flect , that if it be possible to put a fair gloss upon a true story , the verity always ...
... Fair- ford . " Shew Mr Dean into the parlour . " In going slowly down stairs , step by step , the perplexed man of business had time enough to re- flect , that if it be possible to put a fair gloss upon a true story , the verity always ...
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Side 203 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go...
Side 326 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Side 160 - God bless the King !— God bless the Faith's defender !— God bless — No harm in blessing the Pretender. Who that Pretender is, and who that King,— God bless us all, — is quite another thing.
Side 323 - I hope, sir," answered Fairford, civilly, " you are in the habit of reading better books." " Faith," answered Nanty, " with help of a little Geneva text, I could read my Sallust as well as you can ; " and snatching the book from Alan's hand, he began to read, in the Scottish accent.
Side 3 - ... practised by various great authors, and by ourselves in the preceding chapters. Nevertheless, a genuine correspondence of this kind (and Heaven forbid it should be in any respect sophisticated by interpolations of our own !) can seldom be found to contain all in which it is necessary to instruct the reader for his full comprehension of the story.
Side 240 - Charlie,' upon the tenth of June. He is a black sheep, and deserves no encouragement." " Not a bad tune though, after all," said Summertrees ; and, turning to the window, he half hummed, half whistled, the air in question, then sang the last verse aloud: Oh I...
Side 240 - I swear and vow by moon and stars, And sun that shines so early, If I had twenty thousand lives, I'd die as aft for Charlie.