Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
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Page 19
... leave to treat me : so he called my maid Amy , and sent her out to buy a joint of meat ; he told her what she should buy ; but naming two or three things , either of which she might take , the maid , a cunning wench , and faithful to me ...
... leave to treat me : so he called my maid Amy , and sent her out to buy a joint of meat ; he told her what she should buy ; but naming two or three things , either of which she might take , the maid , a cunning wench , and faithful to me ...
Page 20
... leave to live rent tree in the house a whole year But now he put on the face , not of a man of compassion only , but of a man of friendship and kindness , and this was so unexpected that it was surprising . We chatted together , and ...
... leave to live rent tree in the house a whole year But now he put on the face , not of a man of compassion only , but of a man of friendship and kindness , and this was so unexpected that it was surprising . We chatted together , and ...
Page 21
... leave , you shall have a glass too . So he made her drink two glasses also ; and then rising up , And now , Amy , says he , go and get dinner ; and you , madam , says he to me , go up and dress you , and come down and smile , and be ...
... leave , you shall have a glass too . So he made her drink two glasses also ; and then rising up , And now , Amy , says he , go and get dinner ; and you , madam , says he to me , go up and dress you , and come down and smile , and be ...
Page 24
... leave of me , with a thousand expressions of kindness and tenderness , and true affection to me , but offered not the least of what my maid Amy had suggested . At his going away he took me in his arms , protested an honest kindness to ...
... leave of me , with a thousand expressions of kindness and tenderness , and true affection to me , but offered not the least of what my maid Amy had suggested . At his going away he took me in his arms , protested an honest kindness to ...
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... leave . I told him he ought not to ask me leave , who had so much right to make himself welcome ; so the house began to look in some tolerable figure , and clean ; the garden also , in about a fortnight's work , began to look something ...
... leave . I told him he ought not to ask me leave , who had so much right to make himself welcome ; so the house began to look in some tolerable figure , and clean ; the garden also , in about a fortnight's work , began to look something ...
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