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Ernest Maltravers — Volume 09Ernest Maltravers — Volume 09* * * "There the action lies In its true nature * * * * * * * What then? What rests? Try what repentance can!"/Hamlet/. IT was a fine afternoon in December, when Lumley Ferrers turned from Lord Saxingham's...
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Ernest Maltravers — Volume 08Ernest Maltravers — Volume 08CLEVELAND'S villa /was/ full, and of persons usually called agreeable. Amongst the rest was Lady Florence Lascelles. The wise old man had ever counselled Maltravers not to marry too young; but neither did he wish him to put off that...
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Ernest Maltravers — Volume 07Ernest Maltravers — Volume 07"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 world, and without it intercourse would drop." /Anonymous...
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Ernest Maltravers — Volume 06Ernest Maltravers — Volume 06IT was a fine morning in July, when a gentleman who had arrived in town the night beforeafter an absence from England of several yearswalked slowly and musingly up the superb thoroughfare which connects the Regent's park with St. James's....
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Ernest Maltravers — Volume 05Ernest Maltravers — Volume 05My hero, turned author, lies mute in this section, You may pass by the place if you're bored by reflection: But if honest enough to be fond of the Muse, Stay, and read where you're able, and sleep where you...
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Ernest Maltravers — Volume 04Ernest Maltravers — Volume 04"I, alas! Have lived but on this earth a few sad years; And so my lot was ordered, that a father First turned the moments of awakening life To drops, each poisoning youth's sweet hope." "/Cenci/." FROM accompanying Maltravers along...
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Ernest Maltravers — Volume 03Ernest Maltravers — Volume 03The Beautiful Clime!the Clime of Love! Thou beautiful Italy! Like a mother's eyes, the earnest skies Ever have smiles for thee! Not a flower that blows, not a beam that glows, But what is in love with thee! The beautiful...
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Ernest Maltravers — Volume 02Ernest Maltravers — Volume 02IT was a brilliant ball at the Palazzo of the Austrian embassy at Naples: and a crowd of those loungers, whether young or old, who attach themselves to the reigning beauty, was gathered round Madame de Ventadour. Generally speaking, there...
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Ernest Maltravers — Volume 01Ernest Maltravers — Volume 01HOWEVER numerous the works of fiction with which, my dear Reader, I have trespassed on your attention, I leave published but three, of any account, in which the plot has been cast amidst the events, and coloured by the manner,...
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The Disowned — CompleteThe Disowned — Complete It was the evening of a soft, warm day in the May of 17. The sun had already set, and the twilight was gathering slowly over the large, still masses of wood which lay on either side of one of...
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The Disowned — Volume 08The Disowned — Volume 08Plot on thy little hour, and skein on skein Weave the vain mesh, in which thy subtle soul Broods on its venom! Lo! behind, before, Around thee, like an armament of cloud, The black Fate labours onwardANONYMOUS. The dusk of...
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The Disowned — Volume 07The Disowned — Volume 07Forgive me, dearest Lady Westborough, for my violence: you know and will allow for the infirmities of my temper. I have to make you and Lady Flora one request, which I trust you will not refuse me. Do not see...
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The Disowned — Volume 06The Disowned — Volume 06One evening in autumn, about three years after the date of our last chapter, a stranger on horseback, in deep mourning, dismounted at the door of the Golden Fleece, in the memorable town of W. He walked into the taproom,...
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The Disowned — Volume 05The Disowned — Volume 05It is somewhat remarkable that while Talbot was bequeathing to Clarence, as the most valuable of legacies, the doctrines of a philosophy he had acquired, perhaps too late to practise, Glendower was carrying those very doctrines, so far as his...
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The Disowned — Volume 04The Disowned — Volume 04"Cheer up, my dear boy," said Talbot, kindly, "we must never despair. What though Lady Westborough has forbidden you the boudoir, a boudoir is a very different thing from a daughter, and you have no right to suppose that the...
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The Disowned — Volume 03The Disowned — Volume 03Mrs. Trinket. What d'ye buy, what d'ye lack, gentlemen? Gloves, ribbons, and essences,ribbons, gloves, and essences. ETHEREGE. "And so, my love," said Mr. Copperas, one morning at breakfast, to his wife, his right leg being turned over his left, and...
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The Disowned — Volume 02The Disowned — Volume 02We left Clarence safely deposited in his little lodgings. Whether from the heat of his apartment or the restlessness a migration of beds produces in certain constitutions, his slumbers on the first night of his arrival were disturbed and brief....
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The Disowned — Volume 01The Disowned — Volume 01It was the evening of a soft, warm day in the May of 17. The sun had already set, and the twilight was gathering slowly over the large, still masses of wood which lay on either side of one of...
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Pelham — CompletePelham — Complete Ou peut-on etre mieux quau sein de sa famille?French Song. [Where can one be better than in the bosom of ones family?] I am an only child. My father was the younger son of one of our oldest earls; my mother...
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Pelham — Volume 08Pelham — Volume 08 Say. Ay, but I hope your Highness shall have his. 2nd Part of Henry IV. Punctual to his appointment, the next morning came Mr. Job Jonson. I had been on the rack of expectation for the last three hours previous...
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