 | Robert Forbes - 1834 - 556 pàgines
...advice, and accordingly delivered up the letter to him, which was to the following purpose. " I have sent your daughter from this country, lest she should be...her spinning pleases you, you may keep her till she spins all your lint ; or, if you have any wool to spin, you may employ her 1 am, your dutiful husband,... | |
 | Karl Ludwig Klose - 1845 - 416 pàgines
...were conducted by O'Neil to the * " I have sent your daughter from this country, lest she should be in any way frightened with the troops lying here. She has got one Betty Burk, an Irish girl, who, as she tells me, is a good spinster. If her spinning pleases you, you may... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1846 - 318 pàgines
...Having received Miss Macdonald's directions to convey * The letter was as follows : — " I have sent your daughter from this country, lest she should be...her spinning pleases you, you may keep her till she spins all your lint ; or, if you have any wool to spin, you may employ her. I have sent Niel Mackechan... | |
 | Tales - 1846 - 248 pàgines
...whose favour he also provided her with the following letter to his wife, her mother : — " I have sent your daughter from this country, lest she should be...she tells me, is a good spinster. If her spinning please you, you may keep her till she spins all you want ; or, if you have any wool to spin, you may... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Byerley Thomson - 1846 - 552 pàgines
...Armadale to his wife ran as follows : — "I have sent your daughter from this country lest she should be frightened with the troops lying here. She has got...Burke, an Irish girl, who, as she tells me, is a good spinner. If her spinning pleases you, you may keep her till she spins all your lint : or, if you have... | |
 | Elizabeth Starling - 1858 - 474 pàgines
...grant his young petitioner's request. The letter was couched in the following terms : — " I have sent your daughter from this country, lest she should be...Betty Burke, an Irish girl, who, as she tells me, is a goud spinster. If her spinning pleases you, you may keep her till she spins all your lint; or, if you... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 314 pàgines
...so skilful a spinster as their daughter represented. The letter ran as follows : — ' I have sent your daughter from this country, lest she should be...she tells me, is a good spinster. If her spinning please you, you may keep her till she spins all your lint ; or, if you have any wool to spin, you may... | |
 | Flora Francis Wylde - 1870 - 274 pàgines
...letter, which I copy : — "DEAR WIFE, — I have fent your daughter from this country, left fhe fhould be any way frightened with the troops lying here. She has got one Betty Burke, an Irifh girl, who fhe tells me is a good fpinner. If her fpinning pleafes you, you may keep her till... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1875 - 364 pàgines
...recommending Betty for service. " I have sent your daughter from this country," he wrote, " lest she should be frightened with the troops lying here. She has got...her spinning pleases you. you may keep her till she spins all your lint ; or if you have any wool to spin, you may employ her. I have sent Niel Mackechan... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1875 - 380 pàgines
...recommending Betty for service. " I have sent your daughter from this country," he wrote, " lest she should be frightened with the troops lying here. She has got...her spinning pleases you, you may keep her till she spins all your lint ; or if you have any wool to spin, you may employ her. I have sent Niel Mackechan... | |
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I have sent your daughter from this country, lest she should be any way frightened with the troops lying here. She has got one Betty Burke, an Irish girl, who, as she tells me, is a good spinster. If her spinning pleases you, you may keep her till she... 
