The X Jewel: A Scottish Romance of the Days of James VI.Harper & Brothers, 1896 - 262 páginas |
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... me ; and I had heard from those who had the best reasons for knowing that I was returning to a land " where nane was in account but he that could either kill or reve his neighbour . " Well , I could kill and THE X JEWEL . 3.
... me ; and I had heard from those who had the best reasons for knowing that I was returning to a land " where nane was in account but he that could either kill or reve his neighbour . " Well , I could kill and THE X JEWEL . 3.
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... heard , and what I heard and remember was somewhat to the following purpose : - " Five fathom deep , Beneath the keep , Not 4 THE X JEWEL .
... heard , and what I heard and remember was somewhat to the following purpose : - " Five fathom deep , Beneath the keep , Not 4 THE X JEWEL .
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... heard not . On my repeating the question , he tried out of courtesy to his guest to smile , but it was a wan , foolish , sickly smile ; and he looked again upon the ground . At last he said , with some earnestness : 66 Ye'd maybe not ...
... heard not . On my repeating the question , he tried out of courtesy to his guest to smile , but it was a wan , foolish , sickly smile ; and he looked again upon the ground . At last he said , with some earnestness : 66 Ye'd maybe not ...
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... heard , I know not where , began — as men say - to run in my head . There was a cursed catch in it . Although I tried to drive it from me , it met me at every corner ; it caught me on the hills ; it wakened me in the morning ; it was ...
... heard , I know not where , began — as men say - to run in my head . There was a cursed catch in it . Although I tried to drive it from me , it met me at every corner ; it caught me on the hills ; it wakened me in the morning ; it was ...
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... time to find some sign of the songstress , I had no success . I heard nothing , and saw nothing ; and I spent the night in cursing my folly for not divining that I had , in all possibility been sent to this castle with a 32 THE X JEWEL .
... time to find some sign of the songstress , I had no success . I heard nothing , and saw nothing ; and I spent the night in cursing my folly for not divining that I had , in all possibility been sent to this castle with a 32 THE X JEWEL .
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