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Pelham — Volume 07Pelham — Volume 07I rose at my usual early hour; sleep had tended to calm, and, I hope, also, to better my feelings. I had now leisure to reflect, that I had not embraced my party from any private or interested motive; it was...
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Pelham — Volume 06Pelham — Volume 06The whole country was in confusion at the news of the murder. All the myrmidons of justice were employed in the most active research for the murderers. Some few persons were taken up on suspicion, but were as instantly discharged. Thornton...
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Pelham — Volume 05Pelham — Volume 05My pamphlet took prodigiously. The authorship was attributed to the most talented member of the Opposition; and though there were many errors in style, and (I now think) many sophisms in the reasoning, yet it carried the end proposed by all...
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Pelham — Volume 04Pelham — Volume 04How well I can remember the feelings with which I entered London, and took possession of the apartments prepared for me at Mivart's. A year had made a vast alteration in my mind; I had ceased to regard pleasure for its...
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Pelham — Volume 03Pelham — Volume 03I had received for that evening (my last at Paris) an invitation from the Duchesse de B. I knew that the party was to be small, and that very few besides the royal family would compose it. I had owed the...
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Pelham — Volume 02Pelham — Volume 02I dined the next day at the Freres Provencaux; an excellent restaurateur's, by-the-by, where one gets irreproachable gibier, and meets no English. After dinner, I strolled into the various gambling houses, with which the Palais Royal abounds. In one of these,...
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Pelham — Volume 01Pelham — Volume 01I am an only child. My father was the younger son of one of our oldest earls; my mother the dowerless daughter of a Scotch peer. Mr. Pelham was a moderate whig, and gave sumptuous dinners; Lady Frances was a woman...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — CompleteThe Caxtons: A Family Picture — Complete If it be the good fortune of this work to possess any interest for the Novel reader, that interest, perhaps, will be but little derived from the customary elements of fiction. The plot is extremely slight, the...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 18The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 18Adieu, thou beautiful land, Canaan of the exiles, and Ararat to many a shattered ark! Fair cradle of a race for whom the unbounded heritage of a future that no sage can conjecture, no prophet divine, lies...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 17The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 17The stage-scene has dropped. Settle yourselves, my good audience; chat each with his neighbor. Dear madam in the boxes, take up your opera- glass and look about you. Treat Tom and pretty Sal to some of those...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 16The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 16I did not recognize the handwriting, and yet the note was from one whose writing I had often seen. But formerly the writing was cramped, stiff, perpendicular (a feigned hand, though I guessed not it was feigned);...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 15The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 15Reader, hast thou not, in the easy, careless sociability of youth, formed acquaintance with some one in whose more engaging or brilliant qualities thou hast,not lost that dislike to defects or vices which is natural to an...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 14The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 14There is a beautiful and singular passage in Dante (which has not perhaps attracted the attention it deserves), wherein the stern Florentine defends Fortune from the popular accusations against her. According to him she is an angelic...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 13The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 13Saint Chrysostom, in his work on "The Priesthood," defends deceit, if for a good purpose, by many Scriptural examples; ends his first book by asserting that it is often necessary, and that much benefit may arise from...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 12The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 12The Hegira is completed,we have all taken roost in the old Tower. My father's books have arrived by the wagon, and have settled themselves quietly in their new abode,filling up the apartment dedicated to their owner, including...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 11The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 11The next day, on the outside of the "Cambridge Telegraph," there was one passenger who ought to have impressed his fellow-travellers with a very respectful idea of his lore in the dead languages; for not a single...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 10The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 10My uncle's conjecture as to the parentage of Francis Vivian seemed to me a positive discovery. Nothing more likely than that this wilful boy had formed some headstrong attachment which no father would sanction, and so, thwarted...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 09The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 09O young reader, whoever thou art,or reader at least who hast been young,canst thou not remember some time when, with thy wild troubles and sorrows as yet borne in secret, thou hast come back from that hard,...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 08The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 08There entered, in the front drawing-room of my father's house in Russell Street, an Elf! clad in white,small, delicate, with curls of jet over her shoulders; with eyes so large and so lustrous that they shone through...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 07The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 07I wish I had copied that passage from "The Table Talk" in large round hand, and set it before my father at breakfast, the morn preceding that fatal eve in which Uncle Jack persuaded him to tell...
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