Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London., 1826 - 370 pages |
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... doctor in dame Joan's apartment . I am not unwilling that you should know that the girl hath , in all reasonable sort , the exercise of her free will . ” He withdrew , and left the cousins together . Colonel Everard advanced to Alice ...
... doctor in dame Joan's apartment . I am not unwilling that you should know that the girl hath , in all reasonable sort , the exercise of her free will . ” He withdrew , and left the cousins together . Colonel Everard advanced to Alice ...
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... Doctor to return , if he is secure against intrusion . As for disturbances , the stout old boy , so far as I can learn in two minutes ' conversation , laughs at all this turmoil as the work of mere imagination , the consequence of the ...
... Doctor to return , if he is secure against intrusion . As for disturbances , the stout old boy , so far as I can learn in two minutes ' conversation , laughs at all this turmoil as the work of mere imagination , the consequence of the ...
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... Doctor , who shall be nameless , for such as concern Church and State and Sir Henry Lee - And I'll give them leave to give mine um- bles to the kites and ravens if they find me con- ferring my confidence where it is not safe . " CHAPTER ...
... Doctor , who shall be nameless , for such as concern Church and State and Sir Henry Lee - And I'll give them leave to give mine um- bles to the kites and ravens if they find me con- ferring my confidence where it is not safe . " CHAPTER ...
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... doctor the performance of that duty takes place . " " Oh , Mistress Alice , " said Joceline , a little abashed , " you may be sure I spoke not a word of the doctor - No , no - I did not let him into the secret that we had such a ...
... doctor the performance of that duty takes place . " " Oh , Mistress Alice , " said Joceline , a little abashed , " you may be sure I spoke not a word of the doctor - No , no - I did not let him into the secret that we had such a ...
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... doctor with good will , and bring him into the Lodge by the old condemned postern , and so up to this apartment ; and sure this man Tomkins would never presume to come hither , and the doctor may have a bed in Wood_ stock Lodge , and he ...
... doctor with good will , and bring him into the Lodge by the old condemned postern , and so up to this apartment ; and sure this man Tomkins would never presume to come hither , and the doctor may have a bed in Wood_ stock Lodge , and he ...
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