Pelham — Volume 04 by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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sufficient for ourselves. But enough of my morals--will you drive me out,
if I dress quicker than you ever saw man dress before?" "No," said I; "for I make it a rule never to drive out a badly dressed friend; take time, and I will let you accompany me." "So be it then. Do you ever read? If so, my books are made to be opened, and you may toss them over while I am at my toilet." "You are very good," said I, "but I never do read." "Look--here," said Glanville, "are two works, one of poetry--one on the Catholic Question--both dedicated to me. Seymour--my waistcoat. See what it is to furnish a house differently from other people; one becomes a bel esprit, and a Mecaenas, immediately. Believe me, if you are rich enough to afford it, that there is no passport to fame like eccentricity. Seymour--my coat. I am at your service, Pelham. Believe hereafter that one may dress well in a short time?" "One may do it, but not two--allons!" I observed that Glanville was dressed in the deepest mourning, and imagined, from that circumstance, and his accession to the title I heard applied to him for the first time, that his father was only just dead. In this opinion I was soon undeceived. He had been dead for some years. Glanville spoke to me of his family;--"To my mother," said he, "I am particularly anxious to introduce you--of my sister, I say nothing; I expect you to be surprised with her. I love her more than any thing on earth now," and as Glanville said this, a paler shade passed over his face. |
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