Doom Castle: A RomanceBlackwood and Sons, 1901 - 322 pages |
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... voices of the odd - looking uncouth natives he had seen a quarter of an hour ago lurking , silent but alert and peering , phantoms of old story rather than humans , in the fir - wood near a defile made by a brawling cataract . They had ...
... voices of the odd - looking uncouth natives he had seen a quarter of an hour ago lurking , silent but alert and peering , phantoms of old story rather than humans , in the fir - wood near a defile made by a brawling cataract . They had ...
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... voice closer than any of the rest behind him ; he knew what was ordered by its accent , but no Montaiglon stopped to an insolent summons . He put the short rowels to the flanks of the sturdy lowland pony he bestrode , and conceded not ...
... voice closer than any of the rest behind him ; he knew what was ordered by its accent , but no Montaiglon stopped to an insolent summons . He put the short rowels to the flanks of the sturdy lowland pony he bestrode , and conceded not ...
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... voice of the breakers it sounded savage and alarming in the ears of Count Victor , and he fairly took to flight , the bags bobbing more ludi- crously than ever on his back . It was like the man , that , in spite of dreads not to be ...
... voice of the breakers it sounded savage and alarming in the ears of Count Victor , and he fairly took to flight , the bags bobbing more ludi- crously than ever on his back . It was like the man , that , in spite of dreads not to be ...
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... voice rose in the Gaelic language , ringing in a cry for service , but no one came . Count Victor stepped back and looked again upon the storm - battered front , the neglected garden , the pathetic bower . He saw smoke but at a single ...
... voice rose in the Gaelic language , ringing in a cry for service , but no one came . Count Victor stepped back and looked again upon the storm - battered front , the neglected garden , the pathetic bower . He saw smoke but at a single ...
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... voice . And then he added hurriedly , " Not that the tartan's anything wonderful . It cost the people of this country a bonny penny one way or another . There's nothing honest men will take to more readily than the breeks , say I - the ...
... voice . And then he added hurriedly , " Not that the tartan's anything wonderful . It cost the people of this country a bonny penny one way or another . There's nothing honest men will take to more readily than the breeks , say I - the ...
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aboot affair Annapla Ardno Argyll auld Baron Cammercy candle Chamberlain Cheap Edition Church of Scotland cloth coat Count Victor cried Crown 8vo dark dear Demy 8vo Doom Castle Doom's door drew Drimdarroch Duke Edinburgh eyes face fancy father Fcap fingers flageolet frae France French morocco Frenchman Gaelic gave gentleman George Eliot Grace hand heard heart Hielan Highland honour knew lady laughed LL.D Loch Sloy looked Lord Mademoiselle Maps monsieur Montaiglon Mungo never night numerous Illustrations OLIPHANT Olivia perhaps Petullo poor Portraits Post 8vo Professor round Scotland Scots Second Edition seemed seen servant shoulders silent Simon MacTaggart smile softly stair stood story sword tartan tell there's thing Third Edition thought tion turned University of Edinburgh voice vols walls window woman wonder wood word ye're
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