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Page 185
... wife , who kept her eye fixed upon him ; and the obligation to conscience , said by sceptics to be an offspring of society , is sometimes weaker than what is due to a wife , in the estimation of whom a man wish to stand in a certain ...
... wife , who kept her eye fixed upon him ; and the obligation to conscience , said by sceptics to be an offspring of society , is sometimes weaker than what is due to a wife , in the estimation of whom a man wish to stand in a certain ...
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... wife of an inhabi- tant of the town having been found , by a party return- ing from the battle , lying dead at the place called Ladywood - edge , with a child sucking at her breast . We have not the slightest wish to disturb this vene ...
... wife of an inhabi- tant of the town having been found , by a party return- ing from the battle , lying dead at the place called Ladywood - edge , with a child sucking at her breast . We have not the slightest wish to disturb this vene ...
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... wife's fair bosom torn - her heart laid bare ! And the red stream came oozing to my feet ! Is this a time for smiles ? Provost Ramsay . — Your wife ! Heaven preserve us ! Weel , after a ' , I hae reason to be thankfu ' I hae neither wife ...
... wife's fair bosom torn - her heart laid bare ! And the red stream came oozing to my feet ! Is this a time for smiles ? Provost Ramsay . — Your wife ! Heaven preserve us ! Weel , after a ' , I hae reason to be thankfu ' I hae neither wife ...
Contents
THE LAWYERS TALES Alexander Leighton | 5 |
THE ORPHAN John Mackay Wilson | 36 |
THE BURGHERS TALES Alexander Leighton | 44 |
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