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    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 13
    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 13
    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 13
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    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 13

    By Edward Bulwer Lytton

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    Release dateJan 1, 1849
    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 13
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    Edward Bulwer Lytton

    Edward Bulwer-Lytton, engl. Romanschriftsteller und Politiker, ist bekannt geworden durch seine populären historischen/metaphysischen und unvergleichlichen Romane wie „Zanoni“, „Rienzi“, „Die letzten Tage von Pompeji“ und „Das kommende Geschlecht“. Ihm wird die Mitgliedschaft in der sagenumwobenen Gemeinschaft der Rosenkreuzer nachgesagt. 1852 wurde er zum Kolonialminister von Großbritannien ernannt.

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      The Caxtons - Edward Bulwer Lytton

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      Title: The Caxtons, Part 13

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      THE CAXTONS

      A FAMILY PICTURE

      BY

      EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (LORD LYTTON)

      THE CAXTONS.

      PART XIII,

      CHAPTER I.

      Saint 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 it; and begins his second book by saying that it ought not to be called deceit, but good management. (1)

      Good management, then, let me call the innocent arts by which I now sought to insinuate my project into favor and assent with my unsuspecting family. At first I began with Roland. I easily induced him to read some of the books, full of the charm of Australian life, which Trevanion had sent me; and so happily did those descriptions suit his own erratic tastes, and the free, half-savage man that lay rough and large within that soldierly nature, that he himself, as it were, seemed to suggest my own ardent desire, sighed, as the careworn Trevanion had done, that he was not my age, and blew the flame that consumed me, with his own willing breath. So that when at last—wandering one day over the wild moors—I said, knowing his hatred of law and lawyers: Alas, uncle, that nothing should be left for me but the Bar! Captain Roland struck his cane into the peat and exclaimed, Zounds, sir! the Bar and lying, with truth and a world fresh from God before you!

      Your hand, uncle,—we understand each other. Now help me with those two quiet hearts at home!

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