Godolphin, Volume 4.
Baron Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton
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Volume 4 of Godolphin opens at chapter thirty-two, on the weakness of virtue that springs only from feeling. Godolphin is in Rome, on the eve of departure. A mantled figure that recalls Lucilla slips past in the dark before he can be sure. At his rooms he searches his papers in vain, then sits in moody thought over a long, kind letter he wrote her the day before.
In that letter he laid bare his struggles and his self-sacrifice, as far as one of her simple experience could grasp them. He hides nothing of his love, yet holds to his course. The Roman chapters give the novel its most inward turn. Lytton slows the plot to dwell on conscience, memory, and a love that duty has fenced off.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Baron Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 117 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |