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- A Pious Discourse delivered by the Reverend Jabez Branderham, in the Chapel of Gimmerden Sough.'Chapter 3 (27% in)
- 'The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.Chapter 1 (20% in)
- By his knack of sermonising and pious discoursing, he contrived to make a great impression on Mr. Earnshaw; and the more feeble the master became, the more influence he gained.Chapter 5 (26% in)
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