Redgauntlet. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
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... struct the reader for his full comprehension of the story . Also it must often happen that various prolixities and redundancies occur in the course of an interchange of letters , which would only hang REDGAUNTLET. ...
... struct the reader for his full comprehension of the story . Also it must often happen that various prolixities and redundancies occur in the course of an interchange of letters , which would only hang REDGAUNTLET. ...
Side 4
sir Walter Scott (bart.) of an interchange of letters , which would only hang as a dead weight on the progress of the nar- rative . To avoid this dilemma , some biographers have used the letters of the personages concerned , or liberal ...
sir Walter Scott (bart.) of an interchange of letters , which would only hang as a dead weight on the progress of the nar- rative . To avoid this dilemma , some biographers have used the letters of the personages concerned , or liberal ...
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... letters , greatly exceeded what Mr Saunders had anticipated . The young man went through his usual duties , his studies , and the examinations to which he was subjected , but with nothing like the zeal and assiduity which he had ...
... letters , greatly exceeded what Mr Saunders had anticipated . The young man went through his usual duties , his studies , and the examinations to which he was subjected , but with nothing like the zeal and assiduity which he had ...
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... letters , in the order in which he meant to read and comment upon them . Old Counsellor Tough had probably formed an ingenious enough scheme to blunt the effect of the young lawyer's reasoning , by thus obliging him to follow up a ...
... letters , in the order in which he meant to read and comment upon them . Old Counsellor Tough had probably formed an ingenious enough scheme to blunt the effect of the young lawyer's reasoning , by thus obliging him to follow up a ...
Side 29
... letters , put one into his hand which produced a singular effect on the pleader . At the first glance , he saw that the paper had no reference to the affairs of Peter Peebles ; but the first glance also shewed him , what , even at that ...
... letters , put one into his hand which produced a singular effect on the pleader . At the first glance , he saw that the paper had no reference to the affairs of Peter Peebles ; but the first glance also shewed him , what , even at that ...
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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...
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