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Page 95
... purchaser was a Saxon stranger , a land- jobber , who had come over to acquire , as cheaply as he might , some of the property which had lately been brought under the provision of what was then known as the " Incumbered Estates Act ...
... purchaser was a Saxon stranger , a land- jobber , who had come over to acquire , as cheaply as he might , some of the property which had lately been brought under the provision of what was then known as the " Incumbered Estates Act ...
Page 96
... purchaser in his tour of inspection . He was an intelligent man , but manifestly of a sanguine , perhaps credulous , turn of mind . He had been reading up Maxwell's Wild Sports of the West , at once the most amusing and most un ...
... purchaser in his tour of inspection . He was an intelligent man , but manifestly of a sanguine , perhaps credulous , turn of mind . He had been reading up Maxwell's Wild Sports of the West , at once the most amusing and most un ...
Page 135
... purchaser , more commonly still of his groom , and with the whims and fancies of both . A horse dealer is after all a man , liable , as all men are , to err in judgment , and , as I have said , may have overlooked a latent defect in his ...
... purchaser , more commonly still of his groom , and with the whims and fancies of both . A horse dealer is after all a man , liable , as all men are , to err in judgment , and , as I have said , may have overlooked a latent defect in his ...
Page 138
... purchaser thinks he has a warranty when none is really given . " A good hunter " implies a good deal ; sound in wind , reasonably quiet to ride , sound in eyes ; but he may be as lame as you please . Of course he ought to gallop and ...
... purchaser thinks he has a warranty when none is really given . " A good hunter " implies a good deal ; sound in wind , reasonably quiet to ride , sound in eyes ; but he may be as lame as you please . Of course he ought to gallop and ...
Page 144
... of the manifold risks the purchaser runs . You have the third in hand , by way of insurance , and it is generally sufficient — at least I have so found it . THE BLIND FISHERMAN . ST . BOSWELL'S can hardly be 144 HORSE DEALING .
... of the manifold risks the purchaser runs . You have the third in hand , by way of insurance , and it is generally sufficient — at least I have so found it . THE BLIND FISHERMAN . ST . BOSWELL'S can hardly be 144 HORSE DEALING .
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Page 115 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted: months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh, — Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For, in my heart's most secret cell, There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers!