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... weeks . If we allow for the interval which must have elapsed - anything from six weeks to ten before the news could have reached Prestonpans , he will have been a few weeks older , and the season proportionably less propitious for sea ...
... weeks . If we allow for the interval which must have elapsed - anything from six weeks to ten before the news could have reached Prestonpans , he will have been a few weeks older , and the season proportionably less propitious for sea ...
Page 344
... weeks they were sold out . In August , a bolder policy printed 2,000 more . But before then - indeed , before he had had time to learn more than the local Edinburgh opinion of this anonymous novel - Scott had gone off on a holiday where ...
... weeks they were sold out . In August , a bolder policy printed 2,000 more . But before then - indeed , before he had had time to learn more than the local Edinburgh opinion of this anonymous novel - Scott had gone off on a holiday where ...
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... weeks , yet they contain the foreshadowing of all the cal- amities which were to be the burden of the coming year . He notes a secret fear as to Charlotte's health , “ though I trust and pray she may see me out " . Yet she seems out ...
... weeks , yet they contain the foreshadowing of all the cal- amities which were to be the burden of the coming year . He notes a secret fear as to Charlotte's health , “ though I trust and pray she may see me out " . Yet she seems out ...
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