Waverley, Or, 'Tis Sixty Years SinceAdam & Charles Black, 1890 - 191 páginas |
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... MAJOR MELVILLE of Cairnvreckan , an elderly gentleman who had spent his youth in the military service , received Mr. Morton with great kindness and our hero with civility , which the equivocal circumstances wherein Edward was placed ...
... MAJOR MELVILLE of Cairnvreckan , an elderly gentleman who had spent his youth in the military service , received Mr. Morton with great kindness and our hero with civility , which the equivocal circumstances wherein Edward was placed ...
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... Major Melville then commanded the villagers to return to their homes , excepting two , who officiated as constables , and whom he directed to wait below . The apartment was thus cleared of every person but Mr. Morton , whom the Major ...
... Major Melville then commanded the villagers to return to their homes , excepting two , who officiated as constables , and whom he directed to wait below . The apartment was thus cleared of every person but Mr. Morton , whom the Major ...
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... Major Melville , ' to communicate with such of your troop as were recruited upon Waverley- Honour ? ' Certainly ; the poor fellows , finding them- selves in a regiment chiefly composed of Scotch or Irish , looked up to me in any of ...
... Major Melville , ' to communicate with such of your troop as were recruited upon Waverley- Honour ? ' Certainly ; the poor fellows , finding them- selves in a regiment chiefly composed of Scotch or Irish , looked up to me in any of ...
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... Major Melville . One letter , indeed , I received from him , containing a civil intimation of his wish that I would employ my leave of absence otherwise than in constant re- sidence at Bradwardine , as to which , I own , I thought he ...
... Major Melville . One letter , indeed , I received from him , containing a civil intimation of his wish that I would employ my leave of absence otherwise than in constant re- sidence at Bradwardine , as to which , I own , I thought he ...
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... Major Melville had been versed in camps and cities ; he was vigilant by profession , and cautious from experience ; had met with much evil in the world , and therefore , though himself an upright magistrate and an honourable man , his ...
... Major Melville had been versed in camps and cities ; he was vigilant by profession , and cautious from experience ; had met with much evil in the world , and therefore , though himself an upright magistrate and an honourable man , his ...
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