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and David Widger PAUL CLIFFORD PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1840.

CHAPTER I. The next day at noon M. Louvier was closeted in his study with M. Gandrin.

and David Widger CHAPTER LXXIV.

CHAPTER I. TWO days after the interview recorded in the last chapter of the previous Book, Travers, chancing to call at Kenelm's lodgings, was told by his servant that Mr. Chillingly had left Lond...

CHAPTER I. It is the first week in the month of May, 1870.

CHAPTER I. "Please, sir, be this note for you?"

VOLUME II. CHAPTER XIX. Alea sequa vorax species certissima furti Non contenta bonis, animum quoque perfida mergit;-- Furca, f...

and David Widger PAUL CLIFFORD, Volume 5. By Edward Bulwer-Lytton CHAPTER XXII.

and David Widger CHAPTER XXV.

It must be confessed, that flattery comes mighty easily to one's mouth in the presence of royalty.

Cum pulchris tunicis sumet nova consilia et spes.

and David Widger PAUL CLIFFORD, Volume 7. By Edward Bulwer-Lytton CHAPTER XXXIV.

CHAPTER I. NEVER in his whole life had the mind of Sir Peter been so agitated as it was during and after the perusal of Kenelm's flighty composition.

and David Widger PAUL CLIFFORD, Volume 6. By Edward Bulwer-Lytton CHAPTER XXVIII.

CHAPTER I. SIR PETER had not heard from Kenelm since a letter informing him that his son had left town on an excursion, which would probably be short, though it might last a few weeks; and the goo...

CHAPTER I. In the heart of the forest land in which Hilda's abode was situated, a gloomy pool reflected upon its stagnant waters the still shadows of the autumnal foliage.

ATHENS: ITS RISE AND FALL by Edward Bulwer Lytton DEDICATION.

CHAPTER I. Harold, without waiting once more to see Edith, nor even taking leave of his father, repaired to Dunwich [124], the capital of his earldom.

CHAPTER I. The stage-scene has dropped.

CHAPTER I. When I had reached the age of twelve, I had got to the head of the preparatory school to which I had been sent.

CHAPTER I. KENELM did not return home till dusk, and just as he was sitting down to his solitary meal there was a ring at the bell, and Mrs. Jones ushered in Mr. Thomas Bowles.

and David Widger CHAPTER LIII.

CHAPTER I. SIR PETER CHILLINGLY, of Exmundham, Baronet, F.R.S. and F.A.S., was the representative of an ancient family, and a landed proprietor of some importance.

and David Widger CHAPTER VIII. THE DISCOVERY.

and David Widger CHAPTER LXIV.

and David Widger LUCRETIA by Edward Bulwer Lytton PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1853.

CHAPTER I. IF there were a woman in the world who might be formed and fitted to reconcile Kenelm Chillingly to the sweet troubles of love and the pleasant bickerings of wedded life, one might reas...

CHAPTER I. Remarks on the Effects of War.--State of Athens.--Interference of Sparta with respect to the Fortifications of Athens.--Dexterous Conduct of Themistocles.--The New Harbour of the Piraeu...

and David Widger THE LAST OF THE BARONS by Edward Bulwer Lytton DEDICATORY EPISTLE.

By Edward Bulwer-Lytton OR, THE POSTHUMOUS WRITINGS OF THE CELEBRATED AUGUSTUS TOMLINSON, PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ------- ADDRESSED TO HIS PUPILS, AND COMPRISING ...

CHAPTER I. "I don't know that," said my father.

CHAPTER I. Four meals a day, nor those sparing, were not deemed too extravagant an interpretation of the daily bread for which the Saxon prayed.

CHAPTER I. Some days after the tragical event with which the last chapter closed, the ships of the Saxons were assembled in the wide waters of Conway; and on the small fore-deck of the stateliest...

CHAPTER I. It was a beautiful summer afternoon when the coach set me down at my father's gate.

CHAPTER I. "L'adresse et l'artifice out passe dans mon coeur; Qu'ou a sous cet habit et d'esprit et de ruse."*--REGNARD.

CHAPTER I. "Deceit is the strong but subtle chain which runs through all the members of a society, and links them together; trick or be tricked is the alternative; 'tis the way of the w...

CHAPTER I. And all went to the desire of Duke William the Norman.

CHAPTER I. * * * "There the action lies In its true nature * * * * * * * What then?

CHAPTER I. William, Count of the Normans, sate in a fair chamber of his palace of Rouen; and on the large table before him were ample evidences of the various labours, as warrior, chief, thinker,...

CHAPTER I. There was great rejoicing in England.

CHAPTER I. It was the eve of the 5th of January--the eve of the day announced to King Edward as that of his deliverance from earth; and whether or not the prediction had wrought its own fulfilmen...

CHAPTER I. "Notitiam primosque gradus vicinia fecit."*--OVID.

CHAPTER I. IT is somewhat more than a year and a half since Kenelm Chillingly left England, and the scene now is in London, during that earlier and more sociable season which precedes the Easter h...

Love is better than a pair of spectacles, to make every thing seem greater which is seen through it.

and David Widger CHAPTER III. CONFERENCES.

and David Widger, ERNEST MALTRAVERS BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (Lord Lytton) DEDICATION: TO THE GREAT GERMAN PEOPLE, A race of thinkers and of critics; A foreign but familiar audienc...

and David Widger CHAPTER VII. THE RAPE OF THE MATTRESS.

"It was no bad idea of yours, Pisistratus," said my father, graciously, "to depict the heightened affections and the serious intention of Signor Riccabocca by a single stroke,-- /He left of his spe...

and David Widger CHAPTER XVIII. RETROSPECT.

Let a Physician be ever so excellent, there will be those that censure him.