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    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 04
    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 04
    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 04
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    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 04

    By Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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    Release dateJan 1, 1849
    The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 04
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    Edward Bulwer-Lytton

    Edward Bulwer-Lytton, engl. Romanschriftsteller und Politiker, ist bekannt geworden durch seine populären historischen/metaphysischen und unvergleichlichen Romane wie „Zanoni“, „Rienzi“, „Die letzten Tage von Pompeji“ und „Das kommende Geschlecht“. Ihm wird die Mitgliedschaft in der sagenumwobenen Gemeinschaft der Rosenkreuzer nachgesagt. 1852 wurde er zum Kolonialminister von Großbritannien ernannt.

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      PART IV.

      CHAPTER I.

      I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning, day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and purity and freshness. The youth of Nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. I doubt if any man can be called old so long as he is an early riser and an early walker. And oh, youth!—take my word of it— youth in dressing-gown and slippers, dawdling over breakfast at noon, is a very decrepit, ghastly image of that youth which sees the sun blush over the mountains, and the dews sparkle upon blossoming hedgerows.

      Passing by my father's study, I was surprised to see the windows unclosed; surprised more, on looking in, to see him bending over his books,—for I had never before known him study till after the morning meal. Students are not usually early risers, for students, alas! whatever their age, are rarely young. Yes, the Great Book must be getting on in serious earnest. It was no longer dalliance with learning; this was work.

      I passed through the gates into the road. A few of the cottages were giving signs of returning life, but it was not yet the hour for labor, and no Good morning, sir, greeted me on the road. Suddenly at a turn, which an over-hanging beech-tree had before concealed, I came full upon my Uncle Roland.

      What! you, sir? So early? Hark, the clock is striking five!

      Not later! I have walked well for a lame man. It must be more than four miles to—and back.

      "You have been to—? Not on business? No soul would

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