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Side 8
... to pay a consider- able board , was a matter of no importance to Mr Fairford ; it was enough that his presence seemed to make his son cheerful and happy . He was compelled to allow that " Darsie was a 8 CHAP . 1 . NARRATIVE .
... to pay a consider- able board , was a matter of no importance to Mr Fairford ; it was enough that his presence seemed to make his son cheerful and happy . He was compelled to allow that " Darsie was a 8 CHAP . 1 . NARRATIVE .
Side 11
... matter whether well or ill paid , but some job that would hamshackle him at least until the Courts rose , if it were but for decency's sake . " Peter Drudgeit sympathized , for Peter had a son , who , reason or none , would needs ...
... matter whether well or ill paid , but some job that would hamshackle him at least until the Courts rose , if it were but for decency's sake . " Peter Drudgeit sympathized , for Peter had a son , who , reason or none , would needs ...
Side 12
... matters . It was to the old man a labour of love to place in a clear and undistorted view the real merits of this case , which the carelessness and blunders of Peter's former solicitors had convert- ed into a huge chaotic mass of ...
... matters . It was to the old man a labour of love to place in a clear and undistorted view the real merits of this case , which the carelessness and blunders of Peter's former solicitors had convert- ed into a huge chaotic mass of ...
Side 29
... matter ? " " Was he taken unwell ? ” — - " Should not a chair be called ? " & c . & c . & c . The elder Mr Fairford , who remained seated , and looking as senseless as if he had been made of stone , was at length recalled to himself by ...
... matter ? " " Was he taken unwell ? ” — - " Should not a chair be called ? " & c . & c . & c . The elder Mr Fairford , who remained seated , and looking as senseless as if he had been made of stone , was at length recalled to himself by ...
Side 30
... matter with the auld bitch next ? ” said an acute metaphysical judge , aside to his brethren . " This is a daft cause , Bladder- scate - first , it drives the poor man mad that ought it then your nevoy goes daft with fright - then this ...
... matter with the auld bitch next ? ” said an acute metaphysical judge , aside to his brethren . " This is a daft cause , Bladder- scate - first , it drives the poor man mad that ought it then your nevoy goes daft with fright - then this ...
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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 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.