Wilson's Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland: Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative, Volumes 3-4W. Scott, 1888 |
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Page 190
... husband , when he might , if ever he should , be found . This last thought was passing through her mind , and she had intui- tively drawn her clothes around her bosom , as a prepara- tion for her rising resolution , when her husband's ...
... husband , when he might , if ever he should , be found . This last thought was passing through her mind , and she had intui- tively drawn her clothes around her bosom , as a prepara- tion for her rising resolution , when her husband's ...
Page 233
... husband of her youth . Though this event must have been distressing to the widow , her distress was aggravated when , on the second day from that on which her husband had been interred , Mr. Black told her that , " as he had engaged ...
... husband of her youth . Though this event must have been distressing to the widow , her distress was aggravated when , on the second day from that on which her husband had been interred , Mr. Black told her that , " as he had engaged ...
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... husband , who was at the moment recreating himself in his garden , was comfortably set off with a splendid new striped Kilmarnock nightcap . Now , when Mrs. Callender saw this , and recollected the very shabby , faded article of the ...
... husband , who was at the moment recreating himself in his garden , was comfortably set off with a splendid new striped Kilmarnock nightcap . Now , when Mrs. Callender saw this , and recollected the very shabby , faded article of the ...
Contents
WIDOW OF DUNSKAITII Hugh Miller | 1 |
THE WHITSOME TRAGEDY John Mackay Wilson | 20 |
THE SURGEONS TALES Alexander Leighton | 53 |
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