Tales, and Miscellaneous Pieces, Svazek 5R. Hunter; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [&c., &c.], 1825 |
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... farmer Gray began life with no very encouraging prospects : he was the youngest of a large family , and the portion of his father's property that fell to his share was but just sufficient to maintain his wife and three children . At his ...
... farmer Gray began life with no very encouraging prospects : he was the youngest of a large family , and the portion of his father's property that fell to his share was but just sufficient to maintain his wife and three children . At his ...
Strana 257
... farmer Gray had also been out of heart , he and his family might at this hour have been beggars . His situation was thought desperate by many of his neigh- bours ; and a few days after his father's decease , many came to condole with ...
... farmer Gray had also been out of heart , he and his family might at this hour have been beggars . His situation was thought desperate by many of his neigh- bours ; and a few days after his father's decease , many came to condole with ...
Strana 260
... farmer Gray's neighbours , that he began by laying out it could not be less than ten pounds ( a great sum for him ! ) on his house and garden at the first setting out ; when , to be sure , the land would have paid him better if the ...
... farmer Gray's neighbours , that he began by laying out it could not be less than ten pounds ( a great sum for him ! ) on his house and garden at the first setting out ; when , to be sure , the land would have paid him better if the ...
Strana 261
... Gray was , if we only consider money , a very prudent man . What could he or ... farmer . " And then , for the value of a few shillings , say pounds , we ... Gray did not hire any servant - boy to help him ; nor did Mrs. Gray hire a maid ...
... Gray was , if we only consider money , a very prudent man . What could he or ... farmer . " And then , for the value of a few shillings , say pounds , we ... Gray did not hire any servant - boy to help him ; nor did Mrs. Gray hire a maid ...
Strana 262
... Gray . The first year , to be sure , it was rough enough ; and , do what they could , they could not do more than make the rent of the farm , which rent amounted to forty pounds . The landlord was a Mr. Hopkins , an agent to a gentleman ...
... Gray . The first year , to be sure , it was rough enough ; and , do what they could , they could not do more than make the rent of the farm , which rent amounted to forty pounds . The landlord was a Mr. Hopkins , an agent to a gentleman ...
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Alicia Allen Belton better Brian O'Neill brother called cathedral Charles Constantinople cousin cried Darford dear Dolly door Ellen eyes farmer Gray father footboy fortune gentleman George Germaine give Golconda Goodenough guineas hand happy heard heart Hereford Hereford cathedral heronry Hill honour hope Hopkins horse husband Jervas knew lady laughing Limerick gloves Lincolnshire live look looking-glass lottery Lucy Ludgate Ludgate's Madras married Marvel master Maurice merchants milliner miss Barton morning mother Murad the Unlucky never night O'Dougherty O'Neill obliged opinion Paddington Partney Phoebe Pimlico poor prudent recollection replied Rosanna Rose ruin Saladin scarcely sent settle accounts Simon sir Hyacinth O'Brien slaves Stafford sultan sure tell thing thought thousand pounds Tippoo Tippoo Sultan told took turn vase verger whilst wife William Deane wish woad word Wright young
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Strana 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.