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In the first place , let me ask the cause of your visit here at so late an hour . " “ You
heard , ” said Everard , “ what I stated to your father ? ” " I did ; but that seems to
have been only part of your errand - something there seemed to be which ...
In the first place , let me ask the cause of your visit here at so late an hour . " “ You
heard , ” said Everard , “ what I stated to your father ? ” " I did ; but that seems to
have been only part of your errand - something there seemed to be which ...
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When you drew your sword against my father's cause -- almost against his
person - I studied , more than I should have done , to find excuse for you . I knew ,
that is , I thought I knew , your high feelings of public duty - I knew the opinions in
...
When you drew your sword against my father's cause -- almost against his
person - I studied , more than I should have done , to find excuse for you . I knew ,
that is , I thought I knew , your high feelings of public duty - I knew the opinions in
...
Page 67
tremor which attends a sense that danger is near , and an uncertainty concerning
its cause and character . Reluctant as he was to yield belief to supernatural
occurrences , we have already said he was not absolutely incredulous ; as
perhaps ...
tremor which attends a sense that danger is near , and an uncertainty concerning
its cause and character . Reluctant as he was to yield belief to supernatural
occurrences , we have already said he was not absolutely incredulous ; as
perhaps ...
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... no soldier gave alarm , nor did any of the numerous guests of various degrees ,
who spent an unpleasant and terrified night in that ancient mansion , seem to
dare to announce to each other the inexplicable cause of apprehension .
... no soldier gave alarm , nor did any of the numerous guests of various degrees ,
who spent an unpleasant and terrified night in that ancient mansion , seem to
dare to announce to each other the inexplicable cause of apprehension .
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persuasion , Wildrake , all true - blue cavaliers ; and I am convinced , that Sir
Henry and Alice Lee , though they be unconnected with them , have not the
slightest cause to be apprehensive of their goblin machinations . Besides , Sir
Henry and ...
persuasion , Wildrake , all true - blue cavaliers ; and I am convinced , that Sir
Henry and Alice Lee , though they be unconnected with them , have not the
slightest cause to be apprehensive of their goblin machinations . Besides , Sir
Henry and ...
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| Title | Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2 Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | A. Constable and Company, 1826 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 370 pages |
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