Tales, and Miscellaneous Pieces, Volume 5R. Hunter; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [&c., &c.], 1825 |
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... they offend against morality , tire by their sameness , or disgust by their imitation of other writers . RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH . Edgeworth's Town , Feb. 1804 . " CONTENTS . Lame Jervas The Will The Limerick Gloves Out vi PREFACE .
... they offend against morality , tire by their sameness , or disgust by their imitation of other writers . RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH . Edgeworth's Town , Feb. 1804 . " CONTENTS . Lame Jervas The Will The Limerick Gloves Out vi PREFACE .
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Maria Edgeworth. CONTENTS . Lame Jervas The Will The Limerick Gloves Out of Debt out of Danger The Lottery Rosanna Murad the Unlucky The Manufacturers PAGE 1 • 73 133 · 169 211 255 323 371 LAME JERVAS . CHAPTER I. SOME years ago , a.
Maria Edgeworth. CONTENTS . Lame Jervas The Will The Limerick Gloves Out of Debt out of Danger The Lottery Rosanna Murad the Unlucky The Manufacturers PAGE 1 • 73 133 · 169 211 255 323 371 LAME JERVAS . CHAPTER I. SOME years ago , a.
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Maria Edgeworth. LAME JERVAS . CHAPTER I. SOME years ago , a lad of the name of William Jervas , or , as he was called from his lameness , Lame Jervas , whose business it was to tend the horses in one of the Cornwall tin - mines , was ...
Maria Edgeworth. LAME JERVAS . CHAPTER I. SOME years ago , a lad of the name of William Jervas , or , as he was called from his lameness , Lame Jervas , whose business it was to tend the horses in one of the Cornwall tin - mines , was ...
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... Jervas ; concluding by posi- tively assuring the stranger that the ghost of the said Jervas was often seen to walk , slowly , in the long west gallery of the mine , with a blue taper in his hand . " I will take my Bible oath , " added ...
... Jervas ; concluding by posi- tively assuring the stranger that the ghost of the said Jervas was often seen to walk , slowly , in the long west gallery of the mine , with a blue taper in his hand . " I will take my Bible oath , " added ...
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Page 329 - She took a prodigious fancy to it, and offered me any price, if I would part with it : but this I declined doing, because I believed that I should draw down upon my head some dreadful calamity, if I voluntarily relinquished the talisman. Irritated by my refusal, the lady, according to the custom of her sex, became more resolute in her purpose ; but neither entreaties nor money could change my determination. Provoked beyond measure at my obstinacy, as she called it, she left the house.