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    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 05
    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 05
    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 05
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    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 05

    By Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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    Release dateJan 1, 1849
    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 05
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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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      Title: The Caxtons, Part 5

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      PART V.

      CHAPTER I.

      In setting off the next morning, the Boots, whose heart I had won by an extra sixpence for calling me betimes, good-naturedly informed me that I might save a mile of the journey, and have a very pleasant walk into the bargain, if I took the footpath through a gentleman's park, the lodge of which I should see about seven miles from the town.

      And the grounds are showed too, said the Boots, if so be you has a mind to stay and see 'em. But don't you go to the gardener,—he'll want half a crown; there's an old 'Oman at the lodge who will show you all that's worth seeing—the walks and the big cascade—for a tizzy. You may make use of my name, he added proudly,—Bob, boots at the 'Lion.' She be a haunt o' mine, and she minds them that come from me perticklerly.

      Not doubting that the purest philanthropy actuated these counsels, I thanked my shock-headed friend, and asked carelessly to whom the park belonged.

      To Muster Trevanion, the great parliament man, answered the Boots.

      You has heard o' him, I guess, sir?

      I shook my head, surprised every hour more and more to find how very little there was in it.

      They takes in the 'Moderate Man's Journal' at the 'Lamb:' and they say in the tap there that he's one of the cleverest chaps in the House o' Commons, continued the Boots, in a confidential whisper. But we takes in the 'People's Thunderbolt' at the 'Lion,' and we knows better this Muster Trevanion: he is but a trimmer,—milk and water,—no horator,— not the right sort; you understand? Perfectly satisfied that I understood nothing about it, I smiled, and said, Oh, yes! and slipping on my knapsack, commenced my adventures, the Boots bawling after me, Mind, sir, you tells haunt I sent you!

      The town was only languidly putting forth symptoms of returning life as I strode through the streets; a pale, sickly, unwholesome look on the face of the slothful Phoebus had succeeded the feverish hectic of the past night; the artisans whom I met glided by me haggard and dejected; a few early shops were alone open; one or two drunken men, emerging from the lanes, sallied homeward with broken pipes in their mouths; bills, with

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