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Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom Purdie ! this will be news to wring your heart , and many a poor fellow's besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread . " The thought of parting with his dogs moved his own feelings more than anything .
Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom Purdie ! this will be news to wring your heart , and many a poor fellow's besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread . " The thought of parting with his dogs moved his own feelings more than anything .
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| Title | The Life of Sir Walter Scott |
| Author | Gerald Le Grys Norgate |
| Publisher | Methuen & Company, 1906 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Mar 2006 |
| Length | 365 pages |
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