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" Howgate carrier, when he lifted down Ailie his wife. The contrast of his small, swarthy, weather-beaten, keen, worldly face to hers — pale, subdued, and beautiful — was something wonderful. Rab looked on, concerned and puzzled, but ready for anything... "
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 558
1859
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 60

1859 - 868 pages
...palace-gate, lie could not have done it more daintily, more tenderly, more like a gentleman, than did Jnmes the Howgate carrier, when he lifted down Ailie, his...— were it to strangle the nurse, the porter, or степ me. Ailie and he seemed great friends. " ' As I was savin', she's got a kind o' trouble in...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 47

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 628 pages
...could not have done it more daintily, more tenderly, more like a gentleman, than did James the Howgatc carrier, when he lifted down Ailie, his wife. The...the consulting-room, all four ; Rab grim and comic, M'illing to be happy and confidential if cause could be shown, willing also to be quite the reverse,...
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Rab and his friends

John Brown - 1859 - 36 pages
...U'lill (HI H!illlilny lilttl mlyht turn up,— were II In *hrtimlv lhv' mn^ thv jwttr, or even me. k?" We walked into the consulting-room, all four; Rab...confidential if cause could be shown, willing also to be the reverse, on the same terms. Ailie sat down, undid her open gown and her lawn handkerchief round...
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Horæ Subsecivæ, Volume 1

John Brown - 1861 - 548 pages
...be not Too much hair there, but in a semicircle, Or a half-moon made with a pen." A WINTER'S TALE. that might turn up, — were it to strangle the nurse,...confidential if cause could be shown, willing also to be the reverse, on the same terms. Ailie sat down, undid her open gown and her lawn handkerchief round...
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Spare Hours

John Brown - 1861 - 470 pages
...beautiful — was something wonderful. Rab looked on concerned and puzzled, but ready for anything that might turn up, — were it to strangle the nurse,...As I was sayin' she's got a kind o' trouble in her Ireest, doctor ; wull ye tak' a look at it ? " "We walked into the consulting-room, all four ; Rab...
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Spare Hours

John Brown - 1862 - 492 pages
...beautiful — was something wonderful. Rab looked on concerned and puzzled, but ready for anything that might turn up, — were it to strangle the nurse,...confidential if cause could be shown, willing also to be the reverse, on the same terms. Ailie sat down, undid her open gown and her lawn handkerchief round...
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Horae Subsecivae: Rab and His Friends : and Other Papers

John Brown - 1862 - 360 pages
...beautiful — was something wonderful. Rab looked on concerned and puzzled , but ready for anything that might turn up , — were it to strangle the nurse...doctor; wull ye tak' a look at it?" We walked into the consulting room, all four; Rab grim and comic, willing to be happy and confidential if cause could...
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Horæ subsecivæ

John Brown - 1862 - 506 pages
...beautiful — was something wonderful. Rab looked on concerned and puzzled, but ready for anything that might turn up, — were it to strangle the nurse,...Ailie and he seemed great friends. ' As I was sayin', she 's got a kind o' trouble in her breest, doctor; wull ye tak' a look at it?' We walked into the...
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Spare Hours: Rab and his friends and other papers

John Brown - 1865 - 462 pages
...beautiful — was something wonderful. Eab looked on concerned and puzzled, but ready for anything that might turn up, — were it to strangle the nurse,...? " We walked into the consulting-room, all four; Eab grim and comic, willing to be happy and confidential if cause could be shown, willing also to be...
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"With Brains, Sir"

John Brown - 1866 - 192 pages
...something wonderful. Rab looked on concerned and puzzled, but ready for anything that might turn up,—were it to strangle the nurse, the porter, or even me....confidential if cause could be shown, willing also to be the reverse, on the same terms. Ailie sat down, undid her open gown and her lawn handkerchief round...
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