The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volumen3Carey & Hart, 1844 |
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... Jarlshof seemed to imply , an ancient Earl of the Orkneys had selected this neck of land as the place for establishing a mansion - house . It has been long entirely deserted , and the vestiges only can be discerned with difficulty ; for ...
... Jarlshof seemed to imply , an ancient Earl of the Orkneys had selected this neck of land as the place for establishing a mansion - house . It has been long entirely deserted , and the vestiges only can be discerned with difficulty ; for ...
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... Jarlshof . " dejection than even his usual demeanour indicated . Rent ? " answered the Zetlander ; " why , no great Women are always particularly desirous of investi - rent for an old house which no one has lived in since gating mystery ...
... Jarlshof . " dejection than even his usual demeanour indicated . Rent ? " answered the Zetlander ; " why , no great Women are always particularly desirous of investi - rent for an old house which no one has lived in since gating mystery ...
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... Jarlshof - the place is a wild one - Come from where you will , I warrant you will say , like other travellers , you came from a better climate than ours , for so say you all . And yet you think of a retreat , which the very natives run ...
... Jarlshof - the place is a wild one - Come from where you will , I warrant you will say , like other travellers , you came from a better climate than ours , for so say you all . And yet you think of a retreat , which the very natives run ...
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... Jarlshof cheated Mertoun in future only to the moderate extent of twenty - five per cent ; a rate to which all nabobs , army - contractors , speculators in the funds , and others , whom recent and rapid success has enabled to settle in ...
... Jarlshof cheated Mertoun in future only to the moderate extent of twenty - five per cent ; a rate to which all nabobs , army - contractors , speculators in the funds , and others , whom recent and rapid success has enabled to settle in ...
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... Jarlshof , and even from the district , secure that his father , if the dark hour passed away in his absence , would be little inclined to inquire how his son had disposed of his leisure , so that he was sure he had not watched his own ...
... Jarlshof , and even from the district , secure that his father , if the dark hour passed away in his absence , would be little inclined to inquire how his son had disposed of his leisure , so that he was sure he had not watched his own ...
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Amy Robsart ancient answered better betwixt Blount Brenda Bunce Burgh-Westra called Captain Cleveland Castle Claud Halcro command Countess Countess of Leicester court Cumnor Dame daughter David Ramsay devil door Earl Earl of Leicester Elizabeth eyes fair father favour fear Flibbertigibbet followed Foster gentleman George Heriot guests hand hastily hath hear heard heart Heaven Heriot honest honour horse Janet Jarlshof Kenilworth King Kirkwall lady Leicester look Lord Dalgarno madam Magnus Troil Mervyn's Michael Lambourne mind Minna Mistress Mordaunt Mertoun never Nigel night noble Norna once Orkney person poor present Queen replied Saint Saint Magnus Scotland seemed sister speak spoke stood stranger Sussex Swertha sword tell thee thine thing thou art thought tion tone Tony Foster Tressilian Triptolemus turn Udaller Varney voice Wayland Wayland Smith word Yellowley yonder young Zetland
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Página 50 - After this, amid a crowd of lords and ladies, yet so disposed around her that she could see and be seen on all sides, came Elizabeth herself, then in the prime of womanhood, and in the full glow of what in a Sovereign was called beauty, and who would in the lowest rank of life have been truly judged a noble figure, joined to a striking and commanding physiognomy.
Página 50 - Nay, I told you as much before," said Blount; "do, I pray you, my dear Walter, let us take boat and return." "Not till I see the queen come forth," returned the youth composedly.
Página 50 - Thus the adventurous youth stood full in Elizabeth's eye — an eye never indifferent to the admiration which she deservedly excited among her subjects, or to the fair proportions of external form which chanced to distinguish any of her courtiers. Accordingly, she fixed her keen glance...
Página 50 - The young cavalier we have so often mentioned had probably never yet approached so near the person of his Sovereign, and he pressed forward as far as the line of warders permitted, in order to avail himself of the present opportunity. His companion, on the contrary...
Página 51 - And here," she added, giving him a jewel of gold in the form of a chessman, " I give thee this to wear at the collar.
Página 49 - It was even so. The royal barge, manned with the queen's watermen, richly attired in the regal liveries, and having the banner of England displayed, did, indeed, lie at the great stairs which ascended from the river, and along with it two or three other boats for transporting such part of her retinue as were not in immediate attendance on the royal person.