My Novel Volume 9 to11 Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 acquaintance I have picked up here and there and who are now all crowding upon me like poor relations to whom one has unadvisedly given a general invitat... more »ion and who descend upon one simultaneously about Christmas time. ' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)« less