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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... Everard had dared to expect , " that your visits at other times would be much more welcome , had we the fortune to ... Colonel Everard , hesitating , " that - that - in short my presence was not now so unwelcome here as on that occasion ...
... Everard had dared to expect , " that your visits at other times would be much more welcome , had we the fortune to ... Colonel Everard , hesitating , " that - that - in short my presence was not now so unwelcome here as on that occasion ...
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... Colonel Everard , “ when their general purport sounds kind ; but I can protest before Heaven , that my views and wishes towards you and your family are as void of selfish hopes and selfish ends , as they are fraught with love to you and ...
... Colonel Everard , “ when their general purport sounds kind ; but I can protest before Heaven , that my views and wishes towards you and your family are as void of selfish hopes and selfish ends , as they are fraught with love to you and ...
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... Colonel Everard , “ if , without any submission asked , any oath taken , any engagement imposed , express or tacit , ex- cepting that you are not to excite disturbances in the public peace , you can be restored to your residence in the ...
... Colonel Everard , “ if , without any submission asked , any oath taken , any engagement imposed , express or tacit , ex- cepting that you are not to excite disturbances in the public peace , you can be restored to your residence in the ...
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... Colonel Everard advanced to Alice , and was about to take her hand . She drew back , took the seat which her father had occupied , and pointed out to him one at some distance . " Are we then so much estranged , my dearest Alice ? " he ...
... Colonel Everard advanced to Alice , and was about to take her hand . She drew back , took the seat which her father had occupied , and pointed out to him one at some distance . " Are we then so much estranged , my dearest Alice ? " he ...
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... Everard . " May I ask if you have been abroad this evening ? " " Certainly ... Colonel Eve- rard ask so strange a question ? " " Tell me in turn , why your ... Everard might be misled , but WOODSTOCK . 19.
... Everard . " May I ask if you have been abroad this evening ? " " Certainly ... Colonel Eve- rard ask so strange a question ? " " Tell me in turn , why your ... Everard might be misled , but WOODSTOCK . 19.
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