Devereux — Volume 02

Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

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• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
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This eBook was produced by Dagny, [e-mail] and David Widger, [e-mail]

Title: Devereux, Book II. Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton Release Date: March 2005 [EBook #7625] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on February 25, 2003] Edition: 10 Language: English

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Thank Heaven, for the honour of literature, /nous avons change tout cela!—ED. *

CHAPTER I. THEHERO IN LONDON.—PLEASUREIS OFTEN THESHORTEST, AS IT IS THEEARLIEST ROAD TO WISDOM, AND WEMAYSAYOFTHEWORLD WHAT ZEAL-OF-THE-LAND-BUSYSAYS OFTHEPIG-BOOTH, "WEESCAPESO MUCH OFTHEOTHER VANITIES BYOUR EARLYENTERING." IT had, when I first went to town, just become the fashion for young men of fortune to keep house, and to give their bachelor establishments the importance hitherto reserved for the household of a Benedict. Let the reader figure to himself a suite of apartments, magnificently furnished, in the vicinity of the court. An anteroom is crowded with divers persons, all messengers in the various negotiations of pleasure. There, a French valet,—that inestimable valet, Jean Desmarais,—sitting over a small fire, was watching the operations of a coffee-pot, and conversing, in a mutilated attempt at the language of our nation, though with the enviable fluency of his own, with the various loiterers who were beguiling the hours they were obliged to wait for an audience of the master himself, by laughing at the master's Gallic representative. There stood a tailor with his books of patterns just imported from Paris,— that modern Prometheus, who makes a man what he is! Next to him a tall, gaunt fellow, in a coat covered with tarnished lace, a night-cap wig, and a large whip in his hands, comes to vouch for the pedigree and excellence of the three horses he intends to dispose of, out of pure love and amity for the buyer. By the window stood a thin starveling poet, who, like the grammarian of Cos, might have put lead in his pockets to prevent being blown away, had he not, with a more paternal precaution, put so much in his works that he had left none to spare. Excellent trick of the times, when ten guineas can purchase every virtue under the sun, and when an author thinks to vindicate the sins of his book by proving the admirable qualities of the paragon to whom it is dedicated.* There with an air of supercilious contempt upon his smooth cheeks, a page, in purple and silver, sat upon the table, swinging his legs to and fro, and big with all the reflected importance of a /billet-doux/. There stood the pert haberdasher, with his box of silver-fringed gloves, and lace which Diana might have worn. At that time there was indeed no enemy to female chastity like the former article of man-millinery: the delicate whiteness of the glove, the starry splendour of the fringe, were irresistible, and the fair Adorna, in poor Lee's tragedy of "Caesar Borgia," is far from the only lady who has been killed by a pair of gloves.

BOOK II.