Woodstock, Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2A. Constable and Company, 1826 - 370 pages |
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... cause of your visit here at so late an hour . " to " You heard , " said Everard , " what I stated your father ? " " I did ; but that seems to have been only part of your errand - something there seemed to be which applied particularly ...
... cause of your visit here at so late an hour . " to " You heard , " said Everard , " what I stated your father ? " " I did ; but that seems to have been only part of your errand - something there seemed to be which applied particularly ...
Page 19
... cause - al- most 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 which you had been bred up ; and ...
... cause - al- most 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 which you had been bred up ; and ...
Page 67
... cause and cha- racter . Reluctant as he was to yield belief to super- natural occurrences , we have already said he was not absolutely incredulous ; as perhaps , even in this more sceptical age , there are many fewer complete and ...
... cause and cha- racter . Reluctant as he was to yield belief to super- natural occurrences , we have already said he was not absolutely incredulous ; as perhaps , even in this more sceptical age , there are many fewer complete and ...
Page 73
... cause of apprehension . Everard's excited state of mind did not permit him to be so passive . The sounds approached so nigh , that it seemed they were performing , in the very next apartment , a solemn service for the dead , when he ...
... cause of apprehension . Everard's excited state of mind did not permit him to be so passive . The sounds approached so nigh , that it seemed they were performing , in the very next apartment , a solemn service for the dead , when he ...
Page 92
... cause to be apprehensive of their goblin machinations . Besides , Sir Henry and Jo- celine must know every corner about the place : it will be far more difficult to play off any ghostly machinery upon him than upon strangers . But let ...
... cause to be apprehensive of their goblin machinations . Besides , Sir Henry and Jo- celine must know every corner about the place : it will be far more difficult to play off any ghostly machinery upon him than upon strangers . But let ...
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