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Every day, at the hour in which Constance was visible, Godolphin had loaded the keeper, and had returned to attend upon her movements.

By Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) CHAPTER XXII.

By Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) CHAPTER XXXII.

and David Widger CHAPTER LXVIII.

and David Widger CHAPTER XXXV.

and David Widger CHAPTER XXXVII.

While such the entrance of Marmaduke Nevile into a court, that if far less intellectual and refined than those of later days, was yet more calculated to dazzle the fancy, to sharpen the wit, and to...

CHAPTER I. Etchings of Hyde Park in the month of June, which, if this history escapes those villains the trunk-makers, may be of inestimable value to unborn antiquarians.--Character...

of character; and in such strokes, if they be by a great artist, force and freedom of style must still be apparent, even when they are left rough and unfinished.

situation.

Scene, the hall in UNCLE ROLAND'S tower; time, niyht; season, winter.

We left Jasper Losely resting for the night at the small town near Fawley.

CHAPTER I. In which the history opens with a description of the social manners, habits, and amusements of the English People, as exhibited in an immemorial National Festivity.--Char...

CHAPTER I. The last book closed with the success of the Parisian sortie on the 30th of November, to be followed by the terrible engagements no less honourable to French valour, on the 2nd of Decem...

CHAPTER I. In the kindliest natures there is a certain sensitiveness, which, when wounded, occasions the same pain, and bequeaths the same resentment, as mortified vanity or galled ...

MONTHS passed away before my senses returned to me.

Hilyard was yet asleep in the chamber assigned to him as his prison, when a rough grasp shook off his slumbers, and he saw the earl before him, with a countenance so changed from its usual open maj...

CHAPTER I. On waking some morning, have you ever felt, reader, as if a change for the brighter in the world, without and within you, had suddenly come to pass-some new glory has been given to the ...

CHAPTER I. A few weeks after the date of the preceding chapter, a gay party of men were assembled at supper in one of the private salons of the Maison Doree.

and David Widger CHAPTER XI. He who would know mankind must be at home with all men.

Guy Darrell resumed the thread of solitary life at Fawley with a calm which was deeper in its gloom than it had been before.

and David Widger A STRANGE STORY by Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) PREFACE.

"And what news?"

and David Widger CHAPTER XLIX.

CHAPTER I. I'll tell you a story if you please to attend.

CHAPTER I. Primitive character of the country in certain districts of Great Britain.--Connection between the features of surrounding scenery and the mental and moral inclinations of...

Fair are thy fields, O England; fair the rural farm and the orchards in which the blossoms have ripened into laughing fruits; and fairer than all, O England, the faces of thy soft-eyed daughters!

"There can't be a doubt," said my father, "that to each of the main divisions of your work--whether you call them Books or Parts--you should prefix an Initial or Introductory Chapter."

and David Widger CHAPTER XLI.

and David Widger CHAPTER LIX Change and time take together their flight.--Golden Violet.

In the letter which George told Waife he had received from his uncle, George had an excuse for the delicate and arduous mission he undertook, which he did not confide to the old man, lest it should...

There is at present so vehement a flourish of trumpets, and so prodigious a roll of the drum, whenever we are called upon to throw up our hats, and cry "Huzza" to the "March of Enlightenment," that...

Now that I am fairly in the heart of my story, these preliminary chapters must shrink into comparatively small dimensions, and not encroach upon the space required by the various personages whose a...

"What is courage?"

"I am not displeased with your novel, so far as it has gone," said my father, graciously; "though as for the Sermon--" Here I trembled; but the ladies, Heaven bless them!

"Life," said my father, in his most dogmatical tone, "is a certain quantity in time, which may be regarded in two ways,--First, as life integral; Second, as life fractional.

The day after the events recorded in the last section of this narrative, and about the hour of noon, Robert Hilyard (still in the reverend disguise in which he had accosted Hastings) bent his way t...

CHAPTER I. KENELM CHILLINGLY had quitted the paternal home at daybreak before any of the household was astir.