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Side 144
... Herries of Birrenswork , is this your ainsell in blood and bane ? I thought ye had been hanged at Kennington Common , or Hairiebie , or some of these places , after the bonny ploy ye made in the forty - five . " " I believe you are ...
... Herries of Birrenswork , is this your ainsell in blood and bane ? I thought ye had been hanged at Kennington Common , or Hairiebie , or some of these places , after the bonny ploy ye made in the forty - five . " " I believe you are ...
Side 145
... Herries , yet more fiercely , " you have confused me with some of the other furniture of your crazy pate . " " Speak like a gentleman , sir , " answered Pee- bles ; " these are not legal phrases , Mr Herries of Birrenswork . Speak in ...
... Herries , yet more fiercely , " you have confused me with some of the other furniture of your crazy pate . " " Speak like a gentleman , sir , " answered Pee- bles ; " these are not legal phrases , Mr Herries of Birrenswork . Speak in ...
Side 146
... Herries , who had been standing like one petrified by the as- surance of this unexpected address , rejected with a contemptuous motion of his hand , which spilled some of the contents of the box . " Aweel , aweel , " said Peter Peebles ...
... Herries , who had been standing like one petrified by the as- surance of this unexpected address , rejected with a contemptuous motion of his hand , which spilled some of the contents of the box . " Aweel , aweel , " said Peter Peebles ...
Side 147
... Herries made a different and a far more inte- resting figure . However little Peter Peebles might resemble the angel Ithuriel , the appear- ance of Herries , his high and scornful demeanour , vexed at what seemed detection , yet ...
... Herries made a different and a far more inte- resting figure . However little Peter Peebles might resemble the angel Ithuriel , the appear- ance of Herries , his high and scornful demeanour , vexed at what seemed detection , yet ...
Side 148
... Herries . Surely my fate is somehow strangely interwoven with that of this strange and mysterious individual . I had no time at present to speculate upon the subject , for the subsequent conversation demand .. ed all my attention . The ...
... Herries . Surely my fate is somehow strangely interwoven with that of this strange and mysterious individual . I had no time at present to speculate upon the subject , for the subsequent conversation demand .. ed all my attention . The ...
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acquainted addressed Alan Fairford Alan's answered auld Baliol betwixt Birrenswork called cause clerk cobite Court Cristal Nixon danger Darsie Latimer door Dorcas doubt Drudgeit Dumfries Edinburgh Edward Baliol endeavoured escape father favourable folks follow ford Geddes hand heard Herries hinnie honest honour hope horse Jacobites James Wilkinson John Davies Justice Foxley Justice of Peace lady Laird length letter loike look magistrate matter maun Maxwell means ment mind Mount Sharon mutchkin Nanty Ewart never occasion ower party Pate-in-Peril person Poor Peter Peebles present Provost Crosbie purpose Quaker recollection Redgauntlet replied Saint Bees Sallust Saunders Fairford Scotland seemed Shepherd's Bush shew singular Solway Summertrees thee thing thou thought tion tone trepanned Trumbull trust unhappy voice vost warrant weel Whigs wish words young gentleman young lawyer
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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.