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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... discourse ; apt to be satirical ; full of repartee , and a little too forward in conver- sation ; or as we call it in English , bold , though perfectly modest in my behaviour . Being French born , I danced , as some say , naturally ...
... discourse ; apt to be satirical ; full of repartee , and a little too forward in conver- sation ; or as we call it in English , bold , though perfectly modest in my behaviour . Being French born , I danced , as some say , naturally ...
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... discourse with him on the point he was upon , he would rise up in the greatest passion imaginable , and go away , which was the cheapest way I had to be delivered . MY FATHER AND MY HUSBAND'S FATHER DIES . I could 4 ROXANA.
... discourse with him on the point he was upon , he would rise up in the greatest passion imaginable , and go away , which was the cheapest way I had to be delivered . MY FATHER AND MY HUSBAND'S FATHER DIES . I could 4 ROXANA.
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... discourse in the case , the thing spoke itself , they saw me in rags and dirt , who was but a little before riding in my coach ; thin , and looking almost like one starved , who was before fat and beautiful . The house , that was before ...
... discourse in the case , the thing spoke itself , they saw me in rags and dirt , who was but a little before riding in my coach ; thin , and looking almost like one starved , who was before fat and beautiful . The house , that was before ...
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... discourse , for so I did to be sure , he turns to my maid Amy , and looking at her , he says to me , I say all this madam , before your maid , because both she and you shall know that I have no ill design , and that I have , in mere ...
... discourse , for so I did to be sure , he turns to my maid Amy , and looking at her , he says to me , I say all this madam , before your maid , because both she and you shall know that I have no ill design , and that I have , in mere ...
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... discourse , and you are of opinion that there will be no need of it . Indeed so I am , Amy ; but , said I , if there was , I tell you again , I'd die before I would consent , or before you should consent for my sake MY LANDLORD DINES ...
... discourse , and you are of opinion that there will be no need of it . Indeed so I am , Amy ; but , said I , if there was , I tell you again , I'd die before I would consent , or before you should consent for my sake MY LANDLORD DINES ...
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