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Side 6
... engaged in it as a person who had been out at a certain period . So that , on the whole , Mr Fairford was a man much liked and respected on all sides , though his friends would not have been sorry if he had given a 6 NARRATIVE . CHAP . I.
... engaged in it as a person who had been out at a certain period . So that , on the whole , Mr Fairford was a man much liked and respected on all sides , though his friends would not have been sorry if he had given a 6 NARRATIVE . CHAP . I.
Side 7
... whole pleasure of this good old - fashioned man of method , besides that which he really felt in the discharge of his daily business , was the hope to see his son Alan , the only fruit of an union which death early dissolved , attain ...
... whole pleasure of this good old - fashioned man of method , besides that which he really felt in the discharge of his daily business , was the hope to see his son Alan , the only fruit of an union which death early dissolved , attain ...
Side 8
... whole blame upon his more mercurial compa- nion , Darsie Latimer . This youth , as the reader must be aware , had been received as an inmate into the family of Mr Fairford , senior , at a time when some of the de- licacy of constitution ...
... whole blame upon his more mercurial compa- nion , Darsie Latimer . This youth , as the reader must be aware , had been received as an inmate into the family of Mr Fairford , senior , at a time when some of the de- licacy of constitution ...
Side 21
... whole procedure , and putting to silence , not indeed the counsel of the opposite party , but his own . Both Bench and audience seemed considerably surprised at the juvenile appearance of the young man who appeared in the room of ...
... whole procedure , and putting to silence , not indeed the counsel of the opposite party , but his own . Both Bench and audience seemed considerably surprised at the juvenile appearance of the young man who appeared in the room of ...
Side 31
... whole was , that six agents , who had each come to the separate resolution of thrusting a re- taining fee into Alan's hand as he left the court , shook their heads as they returned the money into their leathern pouches , and said ...
... whole was , that six agents , who had each come to the separate resolution of thrusting a re- taining fee into Alan's hand as he left the court , shook their heads as they returned the money into their leathern pouches , and said ...
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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 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.