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The Novels of Lord Lytton (21); Eugene Aram
The Novels of Lord Lytton Eugene Aram - 21 Author:Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton Volume: 21 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1897 Original Publisher: Athenaeum society Subjects: History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free tria... more »l access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. The Soliloquy, and the Character, of a Reclnie. -- The Interruption. Or let my lamp at midnight boar Be Been in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft ontwateh the Bear, Or thrice great Hermes, and unsphers The splrlt of Plato. a: Il Pensemo. As Aram assisted the beautiful Madeline into the carriage, as he listened to her sweet voice, as he marked the grateful expression of her soft eyes, as he felt the slight yet warm pressure of her fairy hand, -- that vague sensation of delight which preludes love, for the first time in his sterile and solitary life, agitated his breast. Lester held out his hand to him with a frank cordiality which the scholar could not resist. " Do not let us be strangers, Mr. Aram," said he, warmly. " It is not often that I press for companionship out of my own circle; but in your company I should find pleasure as well as instruction. Let us break the ice boldly, and at once. Come and dine with me to-morrow, and Ellinor shall sing to us in the evening." The excuse died upon Aram's lips. Another glance at Madeline conquered the remains of his reserve ; he accepted the invitation, and he could not but mark, withan unfamiliar emotion of the heart, that the eyes of Madeline sparkled as he did so. With an abstracted air, and arms folded across his breast, he gnzed after the carriage till the winding of the valley snatched it from his view. He then, waking from his reverie with a start, turned into the house, and carefully closing and barring the door, mounted with slow steps to ...« less