Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
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... acquainted with this lady's first husband , the brewer , and with his father , and also with his bad circumstances ; and knows that first part of the story to be truth . This may , he hopes , be a pledge for the credit of the rest ...
... acquainted with this lady's first husband , the brewer , and with his father , and also with his bad circumstances ; and knows that first part of the story to be truth . This may , he hopes , be a pledge for the credit of the rest ...
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... acquainted myself with some of our English neighbours , as is the custom in London ; and as , while I was young , I had picked up three or four playfellows and com- panions suitable to my years , so , as we grew bigger , we learned to ...
... acquainted myself with some of our English neighbours , as is the custom in London ; and as , while I was young , I had picked up three or four playfellows and com- panions suitable to my years , so , as we grew bigger , we learned to ...
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... acquainted with that part , he had gone so far as to seize my goods , and to carry some of them off too . But I had lived three quarters of a year in his house after that , and had paid him no rent , and which was worse , I was in no ...
... acquainted with that part , he had gone so far as to seize my goods , and to carry some of them off too . But I had lived three quarters of a year in his house after that , and had paid him no rent , and which was worse , I was in no ...
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... acquainted with myself . O let no woman slight the temptation that being generously delivered from trouble is to any spirit furnished with grati- tude and just principles . This gentleman had freely and voluntarily delivered me from ...
... acquainted with myself . O let no woman slight the temptation that being generously delivered from trouble is to any spirit furnished with grati- tude and just principles . This gentleman had freely and voluntarily delivered me from ...
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... acquaintance , so that I had nobody to invite upon such an occasion . I was brought to bed very well ( of a daughter too , as well as Amy ) , but the child died at about six weeks old , so PRESENT MY GENTLEMAN WITH A SON . 41 all that ...
... acquaintance , so that I had nobody to invite upon such an occasion . I was brought to bed very well ( of a daughter too , as well as Amy ) , but the child died at about six weeks old , so PRESENT MY GENTLEMAN WITH A SON . 41 all that ...
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