Bulwer's novels Author:Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: cheeks, but the proud, stern character which the features had assumed, seemed to deny the feelings which that feminine weakness had betrayed. " Pelham," he sa... more »id, " you have seen me thus; I had hoped that no living eye would — This is the last time in which I shall indulge this folly. God bless you! We shall meet again; and this night shall then seem to you like a dream." I would have answered; but he turned swiftly, passed in one moment through the copse, and in the next had disappeared. CHAPTER VII. You reach a chilling chamber, where you dread Damps. Crabbe : Borough. I Could not sleep the whole of that night, and the next morning I set off early, with the resolution of discovering where Glanville had taken up his abode; it was evident, from his having been so frequently seen, that it must be in the immediate neighbourhood. I went first to Farmer Sinclair's; they had often remarked him, but could give me no other information. I then proceeded towards the coast. There was a small public-house belonging to Sir Lionel close by the sea-shore; never had I seen a more bleak and dreary prospect than that which stretched for miles around this miserable cabin. How an innkeeper could live there is a mystery to me at this day; I should have imagined it a spot upon which anything but a seagull or a Scotchman would have starved. " Just the sort of place, however," thought I, " to hear something of Glanville." I went into the house; I inquired, and heard that a strange gentleman had been lodging for the last two or three weeks at a cottage about a mile farther up the coast. Thither I bent my steps; and after having met twocrows, and one officer on the preventive service, I arrived safely at my new destination. It was a house a little better, in outward appearance, tha...« less