The Disowned — Complete
Baron Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton
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Edward Bulwer Lytton opens The Disowned under a motto from G. Knight's Limbo: I'll tell you a story if you please to attend. Chapter I sets an evening of a warm day in the May of a year given as 17--. The sun has set, and twilight gathers over still masses of wood flanking one of those green lanes peculiar to England.
Patches of waste land covered with fern and yellow dwarf furze shrink back from the road. Clusters of rushes hum with gnats until the dark swallows every token of life. The first sound is the light, quick step of a youth. It is betrayed by his elastic tread and by a gay carol he keeps starting over: 'Tis merry, 'tis merry, in good green wood, when birds are about and singing. A heavier step overtakes him, and a good-humoured voice gives the salutation of the evening.
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| CREATOR | Baron Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1003 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |