Guy Mannering (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

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Guy Mannering, a young English gentleman traveling in Scotland, stopped at the home of Godfrey Bertram, Laird of Ellangowan, on the night the first Bertram child, a boy, was born. Mannering, a student of astrology, cast the horoscope of the newborn babe and was distressed to find that the child’s fifth, tenth, and twenty-first years would be hazardous. The young Englishman puzzled over the fact that the boy’s twenty-first year would correspond with the thirty-ninth year of the woman Mannering loved, which was the year the stars said would bring her death or...

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