📔 Guy Mannering

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Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron. Though an East-Indian, he was not partial to an ostentatious display of wealth. In fact, he was too proud a man to be a vain one. The public road, however, was tolerably well-made and safe, so that the prospect of being benighted brought with it no real danger.