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Page 26
... and you shall have no reason to complain of my patience . ” " Then , sir , "
replied his daughter , “ my uncle Everard desires you would be courteous to the
commissioners , who come here to sequestrate the parks and the 26
WOODSTOCK .
... and you shall have no reason to complain of my patience . ” " Then , sir , "
replied his daughter , “ my uncle Everard desires you would be courteous to the
commissioners , who come here to sequestrate the parks and the 26
WOODSTOCK .
Page 38
Thou art but a poor knave , doing thy master ' s order , nor have I any desire that
my own blood or thine should be shed touching this matter . Thou art , I
understand , to give me peaceful possession of the Palace of Woodstock , so
called ...
Thou art but a poor knave , doing thy master ' s order , nor have I any desire that
my own blood or thine should be shed touching this matter . Thou art , I
understand , to give me peaceful possession of the Palace of Woodstock , so
called ...
Page 67
Fare thee well , Alice - if aught could make me desire to profit by thy father ' s wild
wish to cast thee from him in a moment of unworthy suspicion , it would be that
while indulging in such sentiments , Sir Henry Lee is tyranically oppressing the ...
Fare thee well , Alice - if aught could make me desire to profit by thy father ' s wild
wish to cast thee from him in a moment of unworthy suspicion , it would be that
while indulging in such sentiments , Sir Henry Lee is tyranically oppressing the ...
Page 68
But , with forbearance far more than this requires , I can refuse at your hands the
gift , which , most of all things under Heaven , I should desire to obtain , because
duty calls upon her to sustain and comfort you , and because it were sin to permit
...
But , with forbearance far more than this requires , I can refuse at your hands the
gift , which , most of all things under Heaven , I should desire to obtain , because
duty calls upon her to sustain and comfort you , and because it were sin to permit
...
Page 99
acquainted the General that thou hast been by bad example and bad education •
Which is to be interpreted by contraries , I hope , ' said Wildrake ; ' for sure I have
been as well born and bred up as any lad of Liecestershire might desire .
acquainted the General that thou hast been by bad example and bad education •
Which is to be interpreted by contraries , I hope , ' said Wildrake ; ' for sure I have
been as well born and bred up as any lad of Liecestershire might desire .
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| Title | Woodstock, Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one Volume 1 of Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 370 pages |
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