 | Gleanings - 1805 - 232 páginas
...usurer is naturally suspicious; accordingly the wary banker m^de a second appointment with the ghosfs delegate for the next day, and to render any design of imposing upon him abortive, took him into the open fields, where not a house or a tree, or even a bush or a pit \yere... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 páginas
...prosecution of the charitable design imputed to him by the ghost. An old usurer is naturally suspicion*. Accordingly the wary banker made a second appointment...delegate for the next day ; and, to render any design of imposingupon him utterlyabortivc, took him into the open fields, where not a house, or • tree, or... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1822 - 368 páginas
...devoted himself to the prosecution of the charitable design imputed to him by the ghost. An old usurer is naturally suspicious. Accordingly, the wary banker...delegate for the next day ; and to render any design upon him utterly abortive, took him into the open fields, where not a house or a tree, or even a bush,... | |
 | 1825 - 840 páginas
...devoted himself to the prosecution of the charitable design imputed to him by the ghost. An old usurer is naturally suspicious. Accordingly the wary banker...delegate for the next day ; and to render any design upon him utterly abortive, took him into the open fields, where not a house, or a tree, or even a bush,... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 382 páginas
...devoted himself to the prosecution of the charitable design imputed to him by the ghost. An old usurer is naturally suspicious. Accordingly the wary banker...delegate for the next day ; and to render any design upon him utterly abortive, took him into the open fields, where not a house or a tree, or even a bush,... | |
 | James Thacher - 1831 - 274 páginas
...devoted himself to the prosecution of the charitable design imputed to him by the ghost. An old usurer is naturally suspicious. Accordingly, the wary banker made a second appointment with the ghost delegate for the next day ; and to render any design of imposing upon him utterly abortive, took... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1833 - 576 páginas
...usurer is naturally suspicious. Accordingly, the wary bunker made a second appointment with the ghost s delegate for the next day : and, to render any design...where not a house or a tree, or even a bush, or a pit were in sight, capable of screening any supposed confederate. This extraordinary caution excited the... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1833 - 458 páginas
...second appointment with the ghost's delegate tor the next day : and to render any design of imposmg upon him utterly abortive, took him into the open...not a house, or a tree,- or. even a bush, or a pit were in sight, capable of screening any supposed confederate. This extraordinary caution excited the... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1836 - 682 páginas
...devoted himself to the prosecution of the charitable design imputed to him hy the ghost. An old usurer is naturally suspicious. Accordingly, the wary banker...where not a house or a tree, or even a bush, or a pit were in sight, capable of screening any supposed confederate. This extraordinary caution excited the... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - 690 páginas
...ghost. An old usurer is naturally suspicious. Accordingly, the wary banker made a second appnintmeife with the ghost's delegate for the next day : and,...where not a house or a tree, or even a bush, or a pit were in sight, capable of screening any supposed confederate. This extraordinary caution excited the... | |
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Branant, of course, affected a due degree of astonishment on the occasion ; and further promoted the deception by acknowledging his having devoted himself to the prosecution of the charitable design imputed to him by the ghost. An old usurer is naturally... 
