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Guy Mannering
Guy Mannering

Chapter XXVI · Chapter 26

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But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.
Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.
Parish Register.
"Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."
"Oh, you are quite wrong," said the experienced lawyer.
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Guy Mannering

Chapter XXVI · Chapter 26

Chapter 26 of Guy Mannering is here in full — 112 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/22 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.
Line 2
Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.
Line 3
Parish Register.
Line 4
"Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."
Line 5
"Oh, you are quite wrong," said the experienced lawyer.

All words in this reading · 69

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abdication

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

act

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

an

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

and

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

anxious

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

are

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From this reading "Oh, you are quite wrong," said the experienced lawyer.

around

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

art

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

awful

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

bustle

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

But

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

by

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

charity

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

cold

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

cumbrous

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

Dark

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

dismal

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

experienced

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From this reading "Oh, you are quite wrong," said the experienced lawyer.

fancy

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

farce

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

fellow

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

gloom

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

going

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

has

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

heart

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

its

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

laughing

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

law

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

lawyer

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From this reading "Oh, you are quite wrong," said the experienced lawyer.

majesty

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

Mannering

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

mean

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

mercy

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

moves

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

neither

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

no

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

nor

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

not

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

objects

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

of

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

Oh

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From this reading "Oh, you are quite wrong," said the experienced lawyer.

or

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

Parish

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From this reading Parish Register.

please

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

poor

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

Presents

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

profound

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

quite

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From this reading "Oh, you are quite wrong," said the experienced lawyer.

Register

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From this reading Parish Register.

said

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

scarce

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

scene

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

solemnised

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

spreads

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

tender

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

That

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

the

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

think

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

this

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

To

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

touch

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

truth

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From this reading But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart.

unmeaning

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

will

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

With

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

wrong

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From this reading "Oh, you are quite wrong," said the experienced lawyer.

yet

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From this reading Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.

you

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From this reading "Oh, you are quite wrong," said the experienced lawyer.

Your

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From this reading "Your majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity--That fellow will scarce think of going to law."

Chapter 26 of Guy Mannering by Walter Scott holds 112 sentences, grouped into 23 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 26 of Guy Mannering contain?

Chapter 26 holds 112 sentences of Guy Mannering, unabridged, divided into 23 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 26 of Guy Mannering by Walter Scott exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 112 sentences, grouped into 23 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

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Round
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Dreary
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