Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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Page 69
... passed ; just , indeed , enough to enable her afterwards to report to some half - dozen particular friends , that her old master , Sir Henry , had been perilous angry , and almost fought with young Master Everard , because he had well ...
... passed ; just , indeed , enough to enable her afterwards to report to some half - dozen particular friends , that her old master , Sir Henry , had been perilous angry , and almost fought with young Master Everard , because he had well ...
Page 75
... passed myself for the best man of the party ; twanged my nose , and turned up my eyes , as I took my can - Pah ! the very wine tasted of hypocrisy . I think the rogue corporal smok- ed something at last - as for the common fellows ...
... passed myself for the best man of the party ; twanged my nose , and turned up my eyes , as I took my can - Pah ! the very wine tasted of hypocrisy . I think the rogue corporal smok- ed something at last - as for the common fellows ...
Page 78
... passed through the park in quest of you , scarce half an hour since , I saw a light in the Lodge - Step this way , you will see it yourself . ' ' In the north west angle ? -It is from a window in what they call Victor Lee's apartment ...
... passed through the park in quest of you , scarce half an hour since , I saw a light in the Lodge - Step this way , you will see it yourself . ' ' In the north west angle ? -It is from a window in what they call Victor Lee's apartment ...
Page 83
... passed so many of the happiest hours of his life . There was the cabinet , which he had seen opened with such feel- ings of delight when Sir Henry Lee deigned to give him instructions in fishing , and to exhibit hooks and lines ...
... passed so many of the happiest hours of his life . There was the cabinet , which he had seen opened with such feel- ings of delight when Sir Henry Lee deigned to give him instructions in fishing , and to exhibit hooks and lines ...
Page 90
... passed , enrolled in the list of stubborn and irreclaimable ma- lignants , with whom the Council of State was deter- mined no longer to keep terms . The only mode of protecting the old knight and his daughter , was to interest , if ...
... passed , enrolled in the list of stubborn and irreclaimable ma- lignants , with whom the Council of State was deter- mined no longer to keep terms . The only mode of protecting the old knight and his daughter , was to interest , if ...
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