Ernest Maltravers — Volume 01Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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Ernest Maltravers — Volume 01
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
English fiction -- 19th century
and wrestle with these little difficulties, conciliate my methodistical
uncle, and grapple with my noble cousin. But now I am fit for something
better than getting on in the world. Dry chips, not green wood, are the
things for making a blaze! How slow this fellow drives! Hollo, you
sir! get on! mind, twelve miles to the hour! You shall have sixpence a
mile. Give me your purse, Maltravers; I may as well be cashier, being
the elder and the wiser man; we can settle accounts at the end of the
journey. By Jove, what a pretty girl!"
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