The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... Jeanie Deans . She gave him the opportunity he sought , by leaving the room , as if in prosecution of some part of her morning labour . Butler followed her in a few minutes , leaving Deans so closely engaged by his busy visiter , that ...
... Jeanie Deans . She gave him the opportunity he sought , by leaving the room , as if in prosecution of some part of her morning labour . Butler followed her in a few minutes , leaving Deans so closely engaged by his busy visiter , that ...
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... Jeanie , " and to wish for a new ane , if she likes to be brave , but not long enough to weary of a friend - The eye may wish change , but the heart never . " Never said Reuben , " that's a bold promise . " " But not more bauld than ...
... Jeanie , " and to wish for a new ane , if she likes to be brave , but not long enough to weary of a friend - The eye may wish change , but the heart never . " Never said Reuben , " that's a bold promise . " " But not more bauld than ...
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... Jeanie's , and my ain , and a ' mankind's , depended on my asking sic a slave Satan to speak a word for me or them , they should a ' gae down the water thegither for Davie Deans ! " It was the exalted tone in which he spoke this last ...
... Jeanie's , and my ain , and a ' mankind's , depended on my asking sic a slave Satan to speak a word for me or them , they should a ' gae down the water thegither for Davie Deans ! " It was the exalted tone in which he spoke this last ...
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... Jeanie , with a scream that made them all start . " No , I didna say that , " replied Bartoline . " But she confessed bearing the babe . " " And what became of it , then ? " said Jeanie : " for not a word could I get from her but bitter ...
... Jeanie , with a scream that made them all start . " No , I didna say that , " replied Bartoline . " But she confessed bearing the babe . " " And what became of it , then ? " said Jeanie : " for not a word could I get from her but bitter ...
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... Jeanie Deans was concerned in it , thought it best to tell the whole truth from beginning to end . " Do you suppose , " said the magistrate , pansing , " that the young woman will accept an invitation so mysterious ? " " I fear she will ...
... Jeanie Deans was concerned in it , thought it best to tell the whole truth from beginning to end . " Do you suppose , " said the magistrate , pansing , " that the young woman will accept an invitation so mysterious ? " " I fear she will ...
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Allan ancient answered auld bairn Balderstone better betwixt Bucklaw Butler Caleb called canna Captain Dalgetty castle Covenanters Craigengelt Crossmyloof daughter David Deans dinna door Drumthwacket Duke of Argyle Dumbiedikes Edinburgh Effie eyes father favour fear feelings frae gang gentleman George Staunton gude hand Hayston head heard heart Highland honour hope horse Inverary Jeanie Deans Jeanie's Jedediah Cleishbotham Lady Ashton Laird Libberton look Lord Keeper Lord Menteith Lucy M'Aulay Madge mair Marquis Master of Ravenswood maun means ment Middleburgh mind Montrose muckle never night occasion ower person poor Porteous Ranald Ratcliffe replied Reuben Roseneath Saddletree Scotland Scottish seemed Sharpit Sharpitlaw Sir Duncan Sir William Ashton sister soldier speak Staunton suld sword tell thing thou thought tion tone turn voice weel whilk Wildfire Wolf's Crag woman word young
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Pagina 61 - But when the hour of trouble comes to the mind or to the body — and seldom may it visit your Leddyship — and when the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low — lang and late may it be yours — O, my Leddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly.
Pagina 276 - Swine, fool, swine," said the herd, "every fool knows that." "And swine is good Saxon," said the Jester; "but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung up by the heels, like a traitor?" "Pork," answered the swine-herd. "I am very glad every fool knows that too...
Pagina 275 - ... delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of silvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions of turf to which they made their way. A considerable open space, in the midst of this glade, seemed formerly to have been dedicated to the rites of Druidical...
Pagina 274 - Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those long sweeping vistas, in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude.